Hospitalist Retention (Webcast)

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Participants receive valuable white paper research.  Read on for details.

Are your program’s recruitment and retention levels what they should be?

The bottom line is: If you have unhappy hospitalists, you’ll lose them, and chances are you will have trouble recruiting new ones. You need motivated, challenged professionals to make your program a success.

Listen to HCPro's Hospitalist Retention: Strategies to promote career satisfaction and program success, and learn how to:

• Help hospital and hospitalist leaders (of both new and established programs) understand why hospitalist satisfaction is critical
• Employ a conceptual framework for addressing hospitalist satisfaction
• Improve hospitalist satisfaction in your program

Individual hospitalists as well as program administrators can learn to reduce hospitalist burnout and turnover with the tools from this Webcast.

Hospital administrators and their medical staffs have come to depend on hospitalists to address a wide range of concerns. But hospitalists face the challenge of heavy workloads, demanding schedules, and numerous administrative responsibilities, as well as their own professional advancement and personal concerns. This audioconference provides hospital, medical staff, and hospitalist leaders with tools to positively impact hospitalist satisfaction and commitment to their program.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the program, participants will be able to:

1. State three reasons why hospitalist satisfaction is important to hospital leadership
2. Describe the key elements of a conceptual framework for addressing hospitalist satisfaction
3. Initiate corrective actions to improve satisfaction for the hospitalist in their program

TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA

• The business case: Hospitalist satisfaction impact on:
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Performance/results
• Measuring physician satisfaction
• How it is measured (e.g., Physician Work Study survey)
• Intrinsic factors (e.g., specialty) and extrinsic factors (e.g., workload) that impact satisfaction
• Burnout – What is it?  What are its risks?
• Unique issues impacting hospitalist satisfaction
• What are the stresses that hospitalists face?
• What are the risks associated with these stresses?
• A conceptual framework for addressing hospitalist career satisfaction
• What individual hospitalists can do – matching the individual and the job
• What hospitalist leaders can do – address the 4 pillars of satisfaction
• Reward recognition
• Workload schedule
• Control autonomy
• Community environment
• Other suggestions
• General advice
• Action steps
• Toolkit
• Key points to remember
• Q&A

SPECIAL OFFER
Along with your materials packet, you will receive:
• A link to download the SHM White Paper, written by a Task Force chartered by the SHM Board of Directors, on actions hospitalists can take to achieve a sustainable career

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Sylvia McKean, MD, is an associate physician and the medical director of the BWF Hospitalist Service that cares for inpatients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.  She is also associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. McKean has lead development of new hospitalist programs and has received more than a dozen awards for leadership, excellence and teaching, including SHM’s 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching in hospital medicine. Dr. McKean co-chaired SHM’s Career Satisfaction Task Force.

Winthrop F. Whitcomb, MD, has been a practicing hospitalist since 1994 at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, MA. He served as director of the Mercy Inpatient Medicine Service - America’s first and most widely emulated program with 24/7 on site hospitalist staffing - from 1994 through 2004. In 1996, he founded the Society of Hospital Medicine with John Nelson, MD, and co-directed the organization until 2000. Dr. Whitcomb has been particularly interested in Career Satisfaction in hospital medicine. In 2001, he reported in Archives of Internal Medicine the results of a study of over 400 hospitalists describing key predictors of career satisfaction and burnout in hospitalists. Along with Sylvia McKean, he is the founding chair of SHM's Task Force on Career Satisfaction, which produced an influential white paper in 2006 on actions hospitalists can take to achieve a sustainable career.

Joseph A. Miller is the senior vice president for SHM. In this role, Miller oversees aspects of membership, marketing, data management, Web services, finance, and business operations. He oversees SHM’s Practice Management course, the bi-annual survey, and staff the SHM Career Satisfaction Task Force. Miller also does part-time hospitalist consulting for Northeast Hospitalist Consulting. He has over 30 years of management, consulting, and market research experience with healthcare organizations.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Hospitalists, hospitalist program directors, department chairs, vice presidents of medical affairs, quality officers, CFOs, CEOs, chief medical officers, senior physician leaders

YOUR MATERIALS PACKET
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this Webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and take-home items. These materials are provided with PDF links.

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