NEJM October 14, 2020
Hybrid physicians, who work across clinical and nonclinical academic fields, create “social capital” by helping health care delivery organizations enhance performance, communication, and collaboration. The authors describe training programs for hybrid physicians and say the time has come for organizations to actively cultivate, recruit, and support physicians in these vital and increasingly common roles.
In modern health care, physicians are increasingly working across academic fields not previously associated with medicine, such as machine learning and health care design. These “hybrid physicians” have emerged because traditional medical expertise is no longer sufficient for health care systems to deliver the best quality care. Training programs for hybrid...
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