KevinMD August 30, 2024
An excerpt from All Physicians Lead: Redefining Physician Leadership for Better Patient Outcomes.
I Googled the term “physician leadership” and got 183,000,000 hits in 0.45 seconds. There are seemingly endless courses and programs devoted to developing physician leadership, and there’s no shortage of attention to the topic.
Almost uniformly, however, the books and courses approach the topic from a similar angle. Physician leadership is often viewed as something that occurs when physicians reach a point in their career where they are ready to lead a department or join the C-suite of an organization. While physician leadership is seen (rightly) as a vital force in health care, the prevailing view is that only mid- to late-career doctors who graduate to positions...