Richard L. Byyny Fellow In Leadership​ Grant

Richard L. Byyny Fellow In Leadership​ Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Amount: US $30,000
Last Updated: June 26, 2025

Summary

The Richard L. Byyny Fellow In Leadership program, established by Alpha Omega Alpha, aims to nurture mid-career physician leaders through a year-long fellowship. This initiative focuses on enhancing leadership skills by fostering self-examination, mentorship, and experiential learning. Awardees receive $30,000 to support leadership development projects, promoting innovative solutions to contemporary challenges in healthcare. The fellowship seeks candidates demonstrating exceptional leadership within their organizations, reinforcing the commitment to humanistic values and effective medical practice.

Overview

Mission Alpha Omega Alpha, founded in 1902, is the national medical honor society. Its mission is: Alpha Omega Alpha — dedicated to the belief that in the profession of medicine we will improve care for all by:recognizing high educational achievement;honoring gifted teaching;encouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community;supporting the ideals of humanism; andpromoting service to others. Richard L. Byyny Fellow In Leadership​ To recognize and support the development of outstanding mid-career physician leaders. Background Leadership in medicine, medical education, and health care is more complex in the 21st century than ever before. The medical profession and the country are in need of leadership that is inspiring, insightful, engaging, and humble—leadership that both understands and represents the needs of patients, physicians, medical educators, and trainees. Because of their unique knowledge of the practice of medicine, and understanding of medicine’s core professional values, AΩA members are ideally suited to serve as leaders. AΩA Fellows will spend one year honing their leadership skills and expanding their knowledge base in the areas of: Leading from within—Creating access to a broader range of ways of being, thinking, and acting to become more effective in dealing with the challenges for which the usual solutions are inadequate. Unlike most existing programs that teach leadership by imparting someone else’s knowledge (a third-person approach), this Fellowship emphasizes creating leaders using a first-person “as-lived/lived-through” methodology.                        Servant Leadership—Based on specific core values, ideals, and ethics, effective, sustainable, and excellent leadership is based on core professional and personal values and a commitment to servant leadership. The five essential components of the AΩA Fellow in Leadership are: Self-examination, the “inward journey,” leading from within;A structured curriculum focused on topics related to leadership, including an understanding of the relationship between leadership and management;Mentors and mentoring;Experiential learning to broaden the perspective and understanding of leadership as it relates to medicine and health care; andTeam-based learning, and developing communities of practice. The Award

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Mid-career AΩA members who provide outstanding leadership within their organizations. Nominations must be made by a senior executive of the physician’s organization.Nominations must be submitted to the local AΩA Chapter Councilor or to a Chapter Association chair if affiliated with a medical school. If the applicant has no affiliation with a medical school, the applicant may upload the submission packet directly through the AΩA website.Only one nominee will be accepted from a Chapter, private/community hospital or practice, or organization. If an AΩA Councilor applies for this award, the dean of the medical school must appoint another AΩA member from the Chapter to manage the nomination process to avoid any potential conflict of interest. The Dean and Councilor must notify the AΩA national office of the temporary appointment. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member. Applicants must be active dues members of AΩA. The Applicant’s mentors, and all AΩA members in the application packet must have active dues status.

Ineligibility

The fellowship may not be used for salary support for either the Fellow or institutional mentors. AΩA does not pay indirect costs.