Medical Staff Leadership Essentials

Jump-start medical staff leaders with the training and confidence to succeed

Sharpen medical staff leadership skills with proven educational strategies and succession planning tools. Medical Staff Leadership Essentials: A Guide to Developing Leadership Skills and Recruiting the Next Generation delivers a step-by-step process for becoming an effective physician leader and training future leaders. Veteran and new physician leaders alike will gain valuable insight to help the medical staff develop, retain, and recruit a legacy of effective physician leaders.

After reading this book, new and experienced physician leaders will be able to:

• Approach leadership roles with confidence and energy by applying proven leadership strategies from the business world to the medical staff
• Tap into the expertise of an author who has more than 35 years of experience as a medical staff leader and trainer
• Engage the medical staff to identify, recruit, train, and retain effective physician leaders
• Differentiate between leadership, management, and governance and how each plays a critical role in running the medical staff
• Become valuable mentors and coaches to future generations of physicians
• Improve the medical staff culture by understanding and tackling the underlying issues that cause roadblocks for today’s leaders

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Principles of Leadership
  • Four cornerstones of leadership
• Chapter 2: Foundational Leadership Skills That Can Be Learned
  • Learning leadership
  • Emotional intelligence
  • The art of listening
  • It takes a village
  • The wisdom of crowds
  • Conflict resolution
• Chapter 3: Roles and Responsibilities of Medical Staff Leaders
  • Medical staff leadership roles
  • Job performance evaluations
  • How to run an effective meeting
  • Conflicts of interest and disclosure policies
• Chapter 4: Identifying and Recruiting Medical Staff Leaders
  • How recent trends affect leadership recruitment
  • Developing a recruitment plan
  • Changing physicians’ mind-sets
  • Incorporate mentoring into your recruitment process
  • What should you tell potential leaders about the burdens, challenges, and risks of assuming a leadership role?
  • What are adequate rewards to entice medical staff members into leadership roles?
• Chapter 5: Educating medical staff leaders
  • Leadership development training
  • Implementing a training program
  • Three-phase training
  • Mentoring versus coaching
  • Medical staff advisors
• Chapter 6: Nominating and Selecting Medical Staff Leaders
  • Leadership selection criteria
  • Nominating process
• Chapter 7: Succession Planning and Leadership Retention
  • Identify roles that require succession planning
  • Identify who is responsible for succession planning
  • Adopt a systematic process to ensure future leadership
  • Retain medical staff leaders
  • Making physician leadership positions visible
• Chapter 8: Understand the Medical Staff Culture to Meet Future Challenges
  • Don’t repeat the past
  • Understanding polarities
  • Size makes a difference
• Chapter 9: Reflections and Resources
• Chapter 10: From the Field: Medical Staff Leaders Share Their Thoughts on What It Means to Lead
  • Gary Jones, MD, FCCP
  • James R. Hupp, DMD, MD, JD, FACS
  • David Frost, DDS, MS, FACD
  • Robert Cluck, MD

About the author:

R. Dean White, DDS, MS, has been involved in medical staff governance for the past 35 years, and is still an active consultant in the field. He recently retired from his position as the medical staff advisor for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital HEB. In this role, he was responsible for medical staff orientation, leadership development, coaching and mentoring, behavioral event peer review, and the physician health committee.

About the Reviewer:

Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, MBA, FACPE, CMSL, is a senior consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Danvers, MA. He works with medical staffs and boards throughout the country in the areas of governance, credentialing, privileging, peer review and performance improvement, medical staff development planning, strategic planning, and physician performance and behavior management.

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