Physician as Leader

Physician Leaders and Their Accountability for Primary Care Shortage

An article in the Wall Street Journal, “Medical Schools Can’t Keep Up” projects a shortage of 150,000 physicians in 15 years got me thinking about what role physician leaders must take in addressing what will be be a shortage of primary care physicians.. If you ask physicians how to make family medicine more attractive to [...]

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What Can Military Medicine Teach Physician Leaders?

This month’s issue of the ACPE’s Physician Executive highlights Military Medicine. The timing is interesting for me because over the past six months I’ve been supporting physician adoption of technology in military health facilities through a Department of Defense contractor, KSJ Associates. Not having any experience in military medicine, this project has been fascinating on [...]

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How to Get Physicians to Work Together to Achieve Quality Goals?

How do physician leaders get physicians to work together to achieve quality goals? At the recent annual ACPE meeting, a focus group was pulled together by McKesson corporation to address that topic. “Nine physician executives volunteered to participate in the study. They came from a variety of different positions and many were still in practice. [...]

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HBR: Turning Doctors Into Leaders

Lots of buzz about the article in the most recent issue of Harvard Business Review, “Turning Doctors Into Leaders,” by Thomas Lee, network president of Partners HealthCare System, in Boston, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Physician leaders who read the article will resonate with the ideas — not much new there. [...]

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NY TIMES: More Doctors Giving Up Private Practices

An excellent article in the New York Times highlights one of the “hottest” topics in healthcare: specialists anxiously seeking out hospitals to buy their practices. Integration has been the holy grail of healthcare for many years, yet few physicians saw merit to being an employee. In my travels across the country in the past 3 [...]

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Physicians Can Benefit from “Happiness Coaching”

An enjoyable article in today’s Wall Street Journal “Happiness Coaching Comes to the Workplace” highlights the value of structured programs (seminars) and coaching to improve the mood and attitudes of workers. The article features Dr. Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center, Middletown, Conn., who learns the benefits of adjusting her mood and attitude [...]

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A Mentoring Guide for Academic Physician Leaders

If you are an Academic Medicine faculty member, the role of “mentor” is frequently included in your role description. How do you know whether you are doing that job well? Perhaps your only hint is your frustration that your junior colleagues are not showing the improvement you hoped for. On the flip side, are you [...]

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Physician Leader of Clinical Process Improvement Highlighted in the New York Times

This week’s New York Times has an excellent article on healthcare improvement. Specifically they highlight the work at Intermountain Health Care and Dr. Brent James. I feel fortunate to be an alumni of Dr. James Advanced Training Program in Clinical Process Improvement. Along with Dr. Don Berwick, I consider Dr. James to be a key [...]

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Attention Physician Leaders: Verizon Study Quantifies Improved Performance From Advanced Collaboration

The topic of “collaboration” is a big one now, particularly in my work with healthcare organizations implementing advanced EMR technology and CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry). Collaboration can certainly be a throw-away piece of jargon, but it is a proficiency that will be required of medical staffs and groups as they move forward into the [...]

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Sharpen Yourself for Leadership: Three Resources to Consider

Are you keeping up with the latest ideas being floated in the board room? How are you getting yourself ready for the next level of responsibility? Do you KNOW what that next level IS? I want to share some ideas for how you can “upgrade” yourself this summer with some easy reading. //

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When the Going Gets Tough, Physicians Get Creative

I have been wondering how much the economic down turn will affect healthcare and physicians. It’s hard to know, but one thing I DO know is that you can’t sit by and wring your hands. As physicians, most of us have the luxury of knowing our medical skills will always be our back-up plan. But [...]

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Arrogant and Disruptive – Doctors Behaving Badly

Here we go again, bad boy (and girl) doctors causing problems with colleagues AND putting patients at risk. An article in the December 1, 2008, issue of the New York Times, Arrogant, Abusive and Disruptive–and a Doctor, reminds us once again about an issue that is NOT being addressed well within hospitals and health systems. [...]

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