Physician leaders should be offered formal and structured opportunities to participate in leadership development and training. At St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, physician leaders are given guidance before they even step into their new role. A month before medical staff leaders...
This week’s free resource comes from The Medical Executive Committee Manual. Since the leadership skill set is not routinely taught in the medical education process, the medical executive committee must...
There is no one style of leadership that will fit every person who plays a senior role in their organization; leaders have different definitions of success and approaches to achieving it, says William Taylor, author and cofounder of Fast Company magazine, in a column for Harvard...
Physicians may claim that the data used to carry out peer review is invalid. This is a claim that many medical staff leaders have heard. It is true that the discovery of even the slightest inaccuracy will invalidate the entire performance report in the minds of some physicians. They will assume...
Today's free resource is a checklist that will help medical staffs select indicators for use in OPPE/FPPE. Indicators should be evaluated for validity, accuracy, benefits, attribution, communicability, competency, and data availability. Keep in mind that some indicators will be more relevant...
