In this episode of The Effective Statistician, I introduce the Medical Data Leaders Community (MDLC)—a powerful new resource for statisticians, data scientists, programmers, and other quantitative professionals in healthcare research.
I created this community to help you build and refine your leadership skills, so you can increase your influence and drive better decision-making in your organization. Leadership growth requires continuous learning, practice, and reflection, and MDLC provides the tools to support you every step of the way.
Through workshops, peer mentoring, and real-world applications, you’ll develop strategic thinking, negotiation skills, and a stronger leadership presence.
If you want to take your career to the next level, this episode will show you how MDLC can help.
Key points
- MDLC Introduction
- Leadership Growth
- Career Development
- Three Tiers
- Learning Formats
- Real-World Application
- Impact on Healthcare
- Membership Options
- How to Join
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Transcript
What Is The MDLC and How It Will Help You?
Alexander: [00:00:00] Welcome to another podcast episode of The Effective Statistician. And today I want to talk to you about the medical data leaders community, the place that elevates your career in healthcare research. So whether you’re a statistician, data scientist, programmer, or any other quantitative scientist, in research.
This opportunity is for you to improve your leadership skills. And I built this community because It really takes some time to improve your leadership skills. And I’ve seen, lots of people succeed by attending the Effective Statistician Leadership Program. And this six month program is really good and has helped lots of people.
Still, [00:01:00] at the end, you have made only so much progress and there’s lots of things that people want to dive deeper into, refer again to, revisit again, have further discussions about. And leadership is not something that is binary, like you know it or you don’t. It’s more like a continuous thing.
You continuously try to improve things so that you become better. a student of leadership. And the more you know about leadership, the better you are, the more the questions you ask change. And you get to new levels of leadership where there’s other challenges. And you need to, like in a computer game, you need to first master [00:02:00] certain levels so that you can go to the next level where there’s new challenges.
And only you can get to that next level if you have mastered the first level, the first levels. The tagline for this community is learn, apply, reflect, and repeat. Because, as I said, you need to learn things, you need to actually apply things, you need to apply all these kind of different leadership skills, reflect on it, and then start again.
Because leadership is something that is learned through actually doing things quite a lot. It’s similar to statistics, yeah? You can read a stats book, but that doesn’t mean that you become a great statistician. You become a great statistician by actually applying the statistical methodology. to actual [00:03:00] projects.
And then you learn about all the pros and cons about the logistical details and you really understand the different methodologies and the different frameworks and so on. It’s exactly the same with you listen first to new concept like here on the podcast but you will only really understand them deeply if you apply them.
And then you probably need to reflect on them, discuss about them. And where can you do that? That is exactly what the Medical Data Leaders Community is about. It is about bridging your leadership gaps and making sure that you have a much bigger influence within your organization. So the overall vision of the medical [00:04:00] data leaders community is to empower a new generation of medical data leaders dedicated to improving patient outcomes through informed decision making.
Yeah, informed decision making. I want you to elevate your leadership skills so that we always make sure that the right evidence is at the right time, the right format available for decision makers to make the right decisions in, for the benefit of patients. And that can be people within your study team, that can be maybe researchers, out there that use your data, that can be your management, that can be regulators or HTA bodies.
Yeah. Lots of different stakeholders, ultimately, physicians and patients. And I think, I [00:05:00] strongly believe that if we as a data community become better in terms of influencing, we can. overall improve public health. I’m really sure about this. Now, I bet Taylor, the content in the medical data leaders community to three different tiers.
So first tier is the tier of individual contributors. So this is applicable for you if you’re, for example, A study statistician programmer that’s programming all day. If you are a data scientist or epidemiologist that is working on study by study level. So second level or the second tier is for first level leaders.
So here there’s Maybe already some supervising involved. Maybe you have one, two, three direct reports. Or [00:06:00] you have, you need to manage an overall product or a bigger capability. Maybe you’re a lead programmer. Something like that, where you’re delegating already much more things and you need to set up some kind of strategic direction.
The third tier are senior leaders. And these are very often people that have either a pretty big organization already below them, or they are maybe at smaller. There’s a top of their department, yeah or you are a very senior technical person or at a university. You’re a professor and you want to drive the organizational change and help your organization get to this vision that you have for the [00:07:00] overall organization.
By the way, we have a vision workshop in the medical data leaders community. So the medical data leaders community has a couple of different formats for Understanding and learning about leadership, we’ll have workshops, we’ll have webinars, we’ll have challenges, we have group coachings, we have peer to peer mentoring, we have topic based group discussions, all kind of different formats that are tied to these three different tiers.
And depending on in which tier you are, you get access to different formats. Senior level leaders will have a much more kind of discussion based learning experience. Individual contributors also have a much more kind of self learning experience. Which, of course, is also reflected in the price.
[00:08:00] You will also have a lot of online resources and tools for skill development. We have Over 15 hours of content available for you to learn for yourself when you have time. And we also will have networking opportunities so that you can learn from like minded professionals. The Medical Data Leaners Community, MDLC, Support your career growth through building your leadership skills, like delegation, conflict resolution, strategic thinking, help you with getting your communication skills to a whole new level, and also change your mindset so that you can approach things in a new way.
Negotiation skills are absolutely fundamental for everybody. Yeah, we negotiate all the times, being it about resources, [00:09:00] timelines, quality, whatsoever. And you will learn to become a really good negotiator. And this is not happening in Ivory Tower. No, this is actually with real world applications.
Yeah, so you will get assignments that you can directly work on. in your day to day jobs.
So join this medical data leaders community. It’s kicking off as we speak and you can learn about it more on the effective statistician homepage. And we’ll put a link to this also in the show notes. And so check that out. If you want to join that individually as a person, that’s very easy. If you think like [00:10:00] this, not just you, but many people from your organization, three, five.
10, 30, 50, 100 need to join the medical data leaders community, then reach out to me and we can have a discussion on how to make that happen. So for example, maybe I provide some kind of overview. I have a chat with your supervisor and of course, all the other logistical things like setting up the purchase order and these kind of, details I can help you with.
Just reach out to me at over LinkedIn, Alexander Schacht, I hope you’re following me already, or send me an email to alexander at the effective statistician. com. I would really love for you to join the Medical Data Leaders Community because it [00:11:00] will surely help you with your career and it will help me with achieving this vision of a community that has a much, much bigger impact overall within healthcare, within the different organizations.
And within the different teams that we as statisticians, programmers, data scientists, or other quantitative scientists work within.
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I want to help the community of statisticians, data scientists, programmers and other quantitative scientists to be more influential, innovative, and effective. I believe that as a community we can help our research, our regulatory and payer systems, and ultimately physicians and patients take better decisions based on better evidence.
I work to achieve a future in which everyone can access the right evidence in the right format at the right time to make sound decisions.
When my kids are sick, I want to have good evidence to discuss with the physician about the different therapy choices.
When my mother is sick, I want her to understand the evidence and being able to understand it.
When I get sick, I want to find evidence that I can trust and that helps me to have meaningful discussions with my healthcare professionals.
I want to live in a world, where the media reports correctly about medical evidence and in which society distinguishes between fake evidence and real evidence.
Let’s work together to achieve this.
