Set up new physician leaders for success

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 assume their positions, they receive one-on-one orientation through the medical staff services department.

The orientation is made up of the director of medical staff services, the medical staff coordinator that the leader is assigned to, the manager of the peer review process, and the vice president of clinical excellence.

Things that are discussed with the physician leaders include their role in delineating privileges, the peer review process, the indicators that have been chosen by the department, OPPE, and FPPE, including the difference between the two types of FPPE.

Medical staff leaders are also given a contact list with the cell phone numbers of everyone in medical staff services. They are then asked to provide their cell phone numbers and contact information for anyone in their office who does the scheduling so that they can be added to email meeting requests.

Source: Medical Staff Briefing