Effect of shared leadership education program on dental students’ leadership competency and social coexistence index

Objectives: This study aimed to determine how a shared leadership education program affects college students' leadership competency and social coexistence index.Methods: The study subjects were 82 students enrolled at University W located in J-do.Experimental treatment was performed once a week for 15 weeks and a total of 15 times.The collected data were analyzed by t-test using the SPSS statistical program.Results: This study derived the following results.First, as a result of implementing the shared leadership education program, male students displayed improvement in leadership, creative problemsolving ability, and caring thinking, which are sub-areas of leadership competency, and female students exhibited improvement in all sub-areas.Second, both men and women displayed significantly higher in network consideration, maintenance, and expansion among the sub-areas of the social coexistence index. Conclusions:The results suggest that one's own leadership competency and social coexistence index can be improved through experience in shared leadership education programs.