be skilled in ass-kissing when it comes to key attendings and administration, proficiency in being a weasel is great too!!
if you're clinically okay that's good enough as long as you're skilled in the above.
rocking out on the ITE doesn't matter much unless you're skilled in the first. i dont think any of my chiefs had amazing ITE scores, heck neither did the OP last year (her post) and yet she's being recommended for this amazing position of being the administration's official bitch-monkey.
honestly, sure the chief position looks great on paper, but i'm finding some of these jokers gunning for chief mainly for the CV pad and nothing else. they don't care about their resident colleagues. they don't care to voice anything in these meetings. avoiding ripples with the key folks is how they got their position, and they sure as hell aint gonna change after getting the position. i have seen some go on a power-trip, etc.
i'm sure some of you above posters who were chief may have done a great job, who knows and i personally don't care one way or another, but i wouldn't say being chief necessarily means great things outside of the CV pad.
i think gasp's post sums it up well, and it's unfortunate when admins/key attendings select based on the 1st criteria rather than the whole picture, but then again, it's all politics!!!