Leadership and Followership in Military Interprofessional Health Care Teams
Abstract
The U.S. Military has long been aware of the vital role effective leaders play in high-functioning teams. Recently, attention has also been paid to the role of followers in team success. However, despite these investigations, the leader-follower dynamic in military interprofessional health care teams (MIHTs) has yet to be studied. Although interprofessional health care teams have become a topic of increasing importance in the civilian literature, investigations of MIHTs have yet to inform that body of work. To address this gap, our research team set out to study MIHTs, specifically focusing on the ways in which team leaders and followers collaborate in MIHTs. We asked what qualities of leadership and followership support MIHT collaboration?
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Oct 26, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1093/milmed/usab118
Entities
People
- Erin S. Barry
- Holly S Meyer
- Karlen S. Bader-Larsen
- Lara Varpio
- Steven J. Durning
Organizations
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences