Mastering practice leadership to attain employee productivity and quality care delivery

Any physician opening up a new practice is likely concerned with practice management. While planning the operational and logistical aspects of running a practice, which is essentially a business, there is an important area that is often overlooked: leadership. Although medical leadership is still not as common a term as it should be—primarily since physicians are never explicitly taught to be leaders—it is now increasingly used because of the high tendency of physicians to turn to independent medical startups. Often, these ventures hit a plateau because the skilled staff, the high-quality facilities, and the sufficient budget are not adequate in the absence of efficient leadership, which is the element needed to tie it all together.

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