Seven leadership and followership lessons from kidney transplantation during lockdown.

Background: The renal transplant team in Northern Ireland performed 70 transplants in 61 days during the first wave of COVID-19, an 8-fold increase in their typical activity. Mobilising diverse professional skills to achieve this number, especially under COVID-19 conditions, required extraordinary effort on the part of everyone involved along the transplant patient pathway, management and staff from other patient groups.

Methods: Fifteen transplant team members were interviewed to explore their experiences during this time.

Doctors in distress: The personality profile of derailing doctors.

Objective: This study looked at the bright and dark-side personality profile of distressed and potentially derailing doctors (82% male). The derailing doctors were on average 48.75 years old, and from many specialities, in particular, general practice and surgery.

GP trainers and trainees - trait and gender differences in personality: implications for GP training.

This study looked at differences between established GP trainers and current GP trainees in relation to personality traits. Personality differences are particularly important for training in the UK context where the attributes of successful GPs may be evolving as the context changes, and where there is a unique one-to-one relationship between trainer and trainee. GP trainers and trainees attending educational events were invited to participate in this study by completing the NEO-PI-R, a personality measure.

Defining insight: a challenge that matters.

Background: Insight is a fundamental consideration in the maintenance and improvement of performance. What is required is a definition that can be used consistently along with an understanding of the dynamic nature of insight, and therefore its potential for improvement.

Context: The work presented is a review of contemporary literature about insight, self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and experience from the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) in the assessment of 300 doctors with performance problems.