March/April 2024

Improving the patient’s experience is not easy because it often requires a change in the overall culture of the healthcare organization.

Corey Conrath is service line medical director for Marshfield Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He describes here the importance of occupational health.

Mentorship matters. Consider what a difference you might make to someone else by serving their needs as a mentor. If you have been fortunate enough to have had a mentor, you know how important that was to you. Pay it forward.

Physician leadership success now depends on several factors, including content and delivery channel of leadership training and education, board-level physician participation, mentorship, potential executive coaching, recognized opportunities to advan...

Healthcare strategies require collaboration among specialized teams in high-tech environments with significant capital investments. Physician leaders are crucial in leading team performance and should be involved in all phases of the strategic planni...

What are the most important things to look for when hiring a new financial advisor or reviewing your current one?

What is the best method for eliciting physician input and feedback and establishing bidirectional communication to address factors contributing to burnout, enhance a sense of professional community, and provide mental health support?

This article explores the multifaceted dynamics of the bandwagon effect within the healthcare context, shedding light on its impact on panic behaviors, patient choices, medication compliance, and even healthcare policy.

Leaders in the hospital-at-home movement find the at-home units require significant resources, but they generate high satisfaction from clinicians and patients alike and reduce the need to build more inpatient facilities.

In today’s demanding healthcare environment, physician leaders must learn to make well-formed decisions and avoid being misled by their emotions.

This study aimed to create an evidence-and expertise-informed framework to identify elements of the emerging clinician leadership role in ambulatory access in U.S. health systems and to identify the prevalence of clinician leaders assigned to the lea...

A physician boards a plane and sits down. If there is a medical emergency in-flight, does the physician face moral/ethical/legal risk by acts of commission or omission in relation to the medical emergency?