691.04 Health Science Education Foundations IV

This course fosters leadership
development within the contemporary academic and clinical education
environments, explores the unique characteristics of higher education and
guides participants to become transformational leaders skilled to re-frame
health science education, guide educational practices and promote educational excellence.
Leadership starts from within and participants embark on a leadership journey
to build personal leadership capacity and position themselves to effectively
lead others for positive change. Topics include: management vs. leadership,
coaching and mentoring, building cultures that encourage empowerment and
innovation, team dynamics, leading through conflict, followership, assessing
readiness for change, negotiations for mutual benefit, challenging the status
quo and guiding others to lead. Students will complete a leadership project as
part of this course.