Tip of the Week: Invest in medical staff leadership

Leadership is a developed set of competencies including behavioral attributes, knowledge, skills, and tools that enable an organization to effectively and continuously adapt to changing internal and external environmental requirements. Physicians do not learn about or develop the requisite leadership competencies as part of their medical education. The key to success is for the organization to help physicians learn the competencies of leadership, which often means investing time and resources to train the medical staff.