Mastering Medical Leadership - October 2026
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An invitation to attend this immersive three-day programme that offers actionable insights and practical skills to elevate patient care and enhance team dynamics.Medical leadership is its own discipline. Whether you are aspiring to your first formal role, already working as a Director of Medical Services or Chief Medical Officer, or holding RACMA Fellowship, Candidacy, or Associate, the work asks something distinct from clinical practice and the support for it is thin on the ground.
The Australian and New Zealand health systems put real weight on these roles. You are accountable for outcomes you do not fully control, asked to set direction across teams, navigate governance, hold difficult conversations, and carry the culture of a service, often while the system around you is stretched on workforce, funding, and time.
This programme is different. It is led by a faculty founded in the UK on years of medical leadership and education experience, delivered in partnership with RACMA and local faculty who ground it firmly in the Australian and New Zealand systems. You get the depth of an established leadership programme and the local knowledge to make it fit where you actually work.
Over three days we work with the situations you face: the colleague who has lost trust, the service that needs direction, the business case that has to land, the decision that must be made and owned. You will leave with practical skills and a clearer sense of what good leadership looks like for you alongside peers who understand the work.
Day 1: Self-Mastery
The first day is about you. Not your title, your service, or your team, but the person doing the leading. Decades of research land on the same point: it is emotional intelligence, not clinical brilliance or raw intellect, that separates leaders people want to follow from those they merely have to. The good news is that none of it is fixed. Self-awareness can be built, emotional regulation can be practised, and your range as a leader can grow.
Day 2: Leading Teams: Turning Self-Mastery Outward
If the first day was about the person doing the leading, the second is about everyone else. Once you can read and manage yourself, the work turns outward: building teams people want to stay in, creating cultures where people feel safe to speak, leading change and having the conversations most people avoid.
Day 3: Leading the System: From your service to the wider system
The first day was about leading yourself, the second about leading others. The third lifts the view again, to the service and the system around it. This is where leadership becomes about three things: setting a vision worth following, turning it into a strategy that guides real decisions and accessing the resources to make it happen. Plenty of good ideas die for want of the last one. You do not need a senior title to start thinking this way, and the leaders who rise into those roles are usually the ones who already were.
This is a collaboration between RACMA and Doctors Training: https://doctorstraining.com/
Date
Friday 16 October 2026 9:00 AM - Sunday 18 October 2026 4:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Rydges Sydney Airport
8 Arrivals Court, Sydney International Airport NSW 2020
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Mastering Medical Leadership - October 2026
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