Are you a Department Leader? Aspire to be?

The AAMC’s Successful Medical School Department Chair series can help you achieve your goals.

Produced by experts at the AAMC in collaboration with key leaders across our member medical schools and teaching hospitals, these publications reflect real world experience. They empower leaders both in their own career and when acting on behalf of their institution. The series can be purchased as a discounted bundle and includes:

Also available: Surviving and Thriving as an Interim or Acting Leader. This publication helps professionals at medical schools or teaching hospitals decide whether to accept an interim or acting leadership role.

Special Offer: Through July 1, purchase Thriving: New Perspectives and Approaches for Personal and Organizational Success (or the entire series) and receive the complementary publication Surviving and Thriving as an Interim or Acting Leader at no cost.

Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success

Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success

$65.00 ($115 non-member)

Leading tackles leadership issues and outlines the competencies, skills, and approaches that medical school department chairs need to succeed. Leading includes access to additional online learning materials.

In Leading, you will discover:

  • Best practices for developing leadership competencies
  • Differing expectations of deans; hospital and health system CEOs; faculty members
  • How to avoid the most common source of leadership failure in tackling adaptive challenges
  • And much more....
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Recruiting: Proven Search and Hiring Practices for the Best Talent

Recruiting: Proven Search and Hiring Practices for the Best Talent

$65.00 ($115 non-member)

Recruiting is focused on the process of identifying and attracting the most qualified individuals to serve as department chairs and includes supplementary online learning tools.

Recruiting content includes:

  • Why search committees are evolving from representative-based to competency-based
  • What type of interview approach to use
  • How to attract women and racial and ethnic minority candidates for leadership positions in academic medicine
  • And much more...
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Thriving: New Perspectives and Approaches for Personal and Organizational Success

Just released:
Thriving: New Perspectives and Approaches for Personal and Organizational Success

$65.00 ($115 non-member)

Released in 2020, this publication covers performance assessment, compensation, creating a department culture, and thriving as a department and as a leader.

Thriving will help you improve skills in:

  • Assess the performance of departments and department chairs
  • Use effective compensation strategies
  • Create a culture of resilience and wellness
  • And much more....
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Surviving and Thriving as an Interim or Acting Leader

Surviving and Thriving as an Interim or Acting Leader

$35.00 ($65 non-member)

This publication helps professionals at medical schools or teaching hospitals decide whether to accept an interim or acting leadership role and provides guidance on negotiating terms and conditions to ensure success in the position.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Assess the position and negotiate for success
  • Prepare to move into the role
  • Weigh the decision to apply for the permanent position
  • And much more....
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Leading, Recruiting or Thriving each include access to online toolkits with relevant, interactive resources.