The Physician Leadership Institute (PLI), a partnership between The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME) and the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, is designed to provide valuable management and leadership skills that will meet and exceed the various challenges presented in today's health care environment. Through a series of educational sessions supplemented by case studies and exercises taught by UNC Kenan-Flagler faculty, participants will have an opportunity to learn management skills that are integral to successful, clinical leadership. By attending this executive leadership program, physicians can earn up to 36 credit hours of continuing medical education (CME).

Today's health care system is becoming increasingly complex-from highly integrated medical staffs, to the escalating costs of services, to the ever-changing technological frontier. PLI teaches physicians how to better communicate with other health care professionals as well as hospital administration; how to take charge and lead change in health care; and skills to become a vigilant, performance-driven and accountable physician leader all while earning CME. Physician Leadership Institute, an ACCME accredited program open exclusively to physicians, is designed to provide the valuable management and leadership skills that physicians need to lead positive change in their practice or hospital.