Impacts of pseudoleadership on learning in medical school

Pseudoleadership poses a threat to faculty leadership and can be a concern among early career faculty in academic medicine due to their early career appointments and limited experience in their work roles. Pseudoleadership is defined as being placed in a leadership position and not provided adequate training, resources or the institutional equity to successfully perform in the leadership role. Having impacts on learners, including those who are minoritized, early career faculty can be pseudoleaders when they are not adequately trained or equipped to manage the education needs of minoritized medical students. In this perspectives article the authors further characterize pseudoleadership on learning for minoritized students from the perspectives of classroom and clinical spaces and propose an actionable path forward for faculty and leaders in academic medicine.