Category Archives: Human Capital/Management

Leadership Transformation Initiative Inspires Teamwork and Collaboration

By Patrick Cawley, MD MUSC Excellence, a leadership transformation initiative undertaken by our hospital, takes a bottom-up approach to training clinical leaders. The program is simple: It starts with aligning goals and moves to aligning care-giving behaviors across our clinical … Continue reading

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Innovative Care Models Hold Promise for Workforce Challenges

By Clese Erikson For the past seven years, I have focused on calling attention to expected physician shortages, tolling a fairly doom-and-gloom message. But I’m increasingly hopeful that a new message might emerge if the innovative care models currently being … Continue reading

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Innovations in Primary Care: A Potential Cure for Shortages

By Stacie Harbuck As health care wavers on the verge of great change, ideas about health care innovations continue to permeate discussions, meetings, and conferences. At a recent Aspen Health Stewardship Project event, SHOUTAmerica’s Dr. Brent Parton said, “Innovative models … Continue reading

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Celebrating and Motivating Good Doctors

By Joanne Conroy, MD I attended the AAMC Chief Medical Officers (CMO) meeting in Nashville last month. There were excellent speakers and lots of participant engagement. Many of the sessions focused on new payment models and lessons learned by some … Continue reading

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CAS 2012 Preview: Compensating Clinical Educators

By Scott P. Stringer Standing on the stage early in my career presenting a new compensation plan to the assembled faculty at the University of Florida College of Medicine, I noticed from the corner of my eye that the dean, … Continue reading

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Physician Recruitment Goes Social

Best practices can attract many qualified candidates By Michelle Seifert, Frank Gallagher, and Donna Ecclestone In 2007, we joined forces to create Academic In-House Recruiters (AIR), a network that now includes more than 80 members at 50+ academic institutions across … Continue reading

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Creating a Culture of Safety at Georgetown University Hospital

Transparency, accountability are key By Stephen Evans, MD Academic medical centers and teaching hospitals across the country seek to improve patient safety. At Georgetown, we felt that our performance was adequate but not perfect, so we began a significant improvement … Continue reading

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