BMJ  2006;332 (13 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7550.0-f

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Looking for leaders

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Leadership in medicine is a hidden theme in this week's BMJ—the need for it (p 1161), the lack of it (p 1111), how to develop it (http://careerfocus.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7550/194), and even some examples of it (p 1157;p 1107).

Last week Dame Janet Smith bemoaned the lack of leadership in medicine in the UK (p 1111). Dame Janet led the inquiry into the profession's response to the murder by Harold Shipman of hundreds of his patients, and was referring specifically to lack of progress with implementing the recommendations in her report. She was dismissive of the GMC (whose president is interviewed in Career Focus this week) and criticised the "continuing silence" of the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, whose report on revalidation, commissioned as a result of Dame Janet's report, is every day expected.

No one will envy Sir . . . [Full text of this article]

Fiona Godlee, editor

(fgodlee@bmj.com)


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