Abstract Aims With ongoing uncertainty about how dental leadership should evolve to meet future real-world challenges, this rapid scoping review evaluated existing literature to identify strategies that most effectively develop leadership skills in dentistry. Methods Multiple sources (Medline, AMED, Embase and Google Scholar) were searched using terms relating to ‘healthcare', ‘dentistry', ‘leadership', ‘effectiveness', ‘development', ‘education', ‘training' and ‘programmes'.
