By Albert L. Fritz, MHA, Todd Sagin, MD, JD, and Richard A. Sheff, MD
It's a fact. Excellent medical staff leadership is the key to an effective medical staff. But the challenge for medical staffs today is how to convince quality physicians to assume leadership roles. That's why we have developed the modern solution to the medical staff leadership challenge: How to Recruit and Develop Physician Leaders: A Strategy for Medical Staff Leadership Development. This book is the definitive guide to how a hospital can identify, attract, and retain successful leaders for an effective medical staff.
With this book, our experts have created a strategy that guarantees excellent ongoing leadership. In the past, hospitals assigned leadership roles to physicians by default, often appointing leaders who were unwilling, untrained, unqualified or, worst of all unsupported into leadership positions that lacked clear roles and responsibilities. This book demonstrates the necessity of having willing and able leaders who know exactly what they need to do and how.
Encourage, attract, and retain physician leaders
The expert authors draw from their hands-on experience and broad knowledge to provide tips, strategies, and advice about how to identify the qualities that make an excellent leader, how to prepare physicians for leadership roles, and how to maintain leadership succession. Their roles as a former VPMA, a former hospital administrator, and a former residency director make them proficient at providing the solutions to the medical staff leadership issues you face.
Don't be left with the ultimatum of putting untrained or reluctant physicians into leadership positions. Invest in leadership development to reap the benefits and rewards of excellent leadership.
How to Recruit and Develop Physician Leaders: A Strategy for Medical Staff Leadership Development will show you, step-by-step, how to chart a course for recruiting, electing, and retaining physician leaders. With comprehensive job descriptions, compensation grids, and leadership training tools, you'll be able to have the physicians you want in leadership roles. This book outlines the following step-by-step strategy to developing physician leaders and provides case studies to prove how this approach can work:
- Clarify leadership positions
- 8 sample job descriptions-from president of the medical staff to quality committee chairs-clarify each position's reporting objectives, position purpose, accountability and function, position requirements, recognition and benefits, and occupational hazards
- Identify, attract, and recruit
- Recognize potential leaders so you can train and develop their leadership skills
- Create new ways to highlight physician leaders to honor them for their service
- Discover how to make leadership roles attractive to the right physician for the position
- Learn about compensation from the easy-to-use compensation grid
- Nomination and selection
- Foster communication among the medical staff, management, and board for a smooth nomination and selection process
- Develop leadership selection criteria and a nominating process (helpful detailed examples included!)
- Training
- Create a 3-phase training program so you have the most skilled physician leaders making decisions as follows:
- have an orientation process to maintain the interest of new physicians in leadership roles
- develop off-site conferences to prove hospital commitment to leaders
- develop an education plan and a leadership training session
- Leadership training questionnaire included!
- Succession planning
- Designate an "heir" so there are identified physicians to take over leadership roles
- Adopt a process to ensure future leadership and centralize leadership development
- Helpful outline for succession planning included!
You'll be armed with all the tools you need to make this strategy work
With How to Recruit and Develop Physician Leaders you'll also receive:
- medical staff leader recruitment techniques, starting with tips for identifying potential physician leaders to compensation grids to help make succession and retention easier.
- detailed examples of leadership selection criteria, sample outline of the nomination process, and the steps for promoting these physicians into their new roles.
- comprehensive timeline of just how to create and implement a physician training program, and set up mentoring services.
- a leadership training questionnaire focusing on governance, credentialing, quality monitoring and performance improvement, communication, and administration of medical staff.
- expert advice on succession planning from identifying who is responsible for it to adopting a systematic process to ensuring future leadership.
- 2 comprehensive case studies that will walk you through what other hospitals did to jumpstart their leadership development and succession planning.
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