Aims

1. To help trainees develop a better understanding of different leadership strategies and increase their exposure to the various management and leadership opportunities present within medicine.

2. To deliver formal quality improvement (QI) training via our management teams, to help trainees conduct small–scale QI projects and obtain formal management qualifications.

Methods and results We invited all interested to apply with a good spread of 27 trainees from FY1-ST7. The pre-course questionnaire showed most had little prior experience of management training. Only 8.5% of participants agreed that they had ‘confidence understanding the leadership and management structure of the NHS as a whole and at a King’s level.’ Our first day was structured into a series of speakers, ranging from our King’s Head of Transformation to previous FMLM fellows running workshops on leadership techniques and on NHS structure.

87.5% of participants reported an improvement in their knowledge of the leadership and management structures within the NHS and KCH. Also, 100% of trainees reported an increased awareness of the leadership and management opportunities available with 95.8% of candidates likely to take this further. With our transformation team, we delivered Sigma Six yellow belt training over two one-day courses. We split participants into QI groups of 3 or 4. The training was well received and 100% of participants will use their training to help their QI project and that it was useful for their non-clinical development.

Conclusions Working collaboratively with our management and transformation teams, have enabled us to deliver effective QI training to participants, propelling smaller QI projects within the hospital which have been showcased at the trust awards ceremony.

We firmly believe management and leadership training should begin early in our careers, and programmes like KITE, highlight this well. Given the program’s success it will be repeated again next year.