Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities

Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities
Author: Richard D. Urman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2011-12-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461405513

Increasingly, physicians are leveraging their medical training and expertise to pursue careers in non-traditional arenas. Their goals are diverse: · Explore consulting as a way to improve patient care · Lay the foundation for a career in academic medicine · Provide leadership in healthcare · Strengthen ties between a clinic and the community · Broaden one’s experience as a medical student · As a journalist or writer, open a window onto medicine for non-experts Some physicians will pursue another degree, while others may not, in anticipation of moving into public service, business, education, law, or organized medicine. Their common ground is the desire to enhance their professional fulfillment. Drs. Urman and Ehrenfeld’s book features individual chapters on the wide array of non-traditional careers for physicians, each one written by an outstanding leader in medicine who him- or herself has successfully forged a unique career path. A final chapter brings together fascinating brief profiles – “case studies” – of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings. Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career – practitioners, fellows, residents, and medical students – who want to explore possibilities beyond traditional medical practice, the book also sets out common-sense advice on topics such as work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction.

Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty

Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty
Author: Anthony J. Viera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-03-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319277812

Recognizing that medical faculty face different questions or issues in different stages of their careers, this handy, practical title offers a comprehensive roadmap and range of solutions to common challenges in the complex and changing Academic Medical Center (AMC). With critical insights and strategies for both aspiring and seasoned academicians, this handbook offers a concise guide for personal career development, executive skill acquisition, and leadership principles, providing actionable, targeted advice for faculty seeking help on a myriad of new issues and situations. Pressures in today’s Academic Medical Center include significant changes to the healthcare system, competition for research funding, transformation of medical education, and recruitment and retention of the ever-evolving workforce. This dynamic environment calls for razor-sharp leadership and management effectiveness to stay competitive. AMC faculty aspire to formal leadership roles for a variety of reasons: to set a new vision, to create change, or to affect policy and resource decisions. For others, weariness of past leadership styles or mistakes may catalyze wanting a chance to set a different tone. In the end, promotional opportunities often come with great administrative and management responsibilities. Management and Leadership Skills for Medical Faculty: A Practical Handbook is a must-have resource for faculty in AMCs and anyone with a role in healthcare leadership.

Lead, Inspire, Thrive

Lead, Inspire, Thrive
Author: Fred Sanfilippo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2023-12-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3031411773

This handy reference will help medical school department chairs and other Academic Health Center (AHC) leaders navigate the important, challenging and complex responsibilities and opportunities of their positions, whether they are new, experienced or future leaders. Medical school department chairs support four distinct missions (education, research, clinical care and public service), which serve multiple constituents, have different measures of success, and sometimes are in direct conflict for resources across the different priorities of their AHC and its component organizations. Having served as medical school department chairs, program and center directors, medical school deans, and AHC chief executives, the authors have seen first-hand the increasing difficulty and complexity of these roles and the inspiring impact these leaders can have on those they serve. This book shares their insights by providing contemporary and comprehensive information to help these leaders navigate the many issues and opportunities they face. While serving as a medical school department chair is challenging on many levels, it is one of the most important roles in AHCs and can be an extremely rewarding leadership position. Timely advice and guidance are keys to success, and this book articulates and answers the most common questions faced by medical school department chairs and other leaders over their careers.

Leadership in Medical Education

Leadership in Medical Education
Author: Stewart Mennin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537292731

(This is a textbook for Leadership in Medical Education, a course that is jointly sponsored by AMEE, ESME, and Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Its use is most effective as a workbook and guide among the authors and participants in that online course.) Leadership from qualified, committed educators sets the foundation for the health care workforce of the future, and that workforce is the backbone of quality care. Globally, the demand for services is increasing, and political and economic support for health is decreasing. Leaders in health care and health professions education, at all levels and in all contexts, face complex and intractable challenges. This course, ESME Leadership in Medical Education (LME), is designed to provide the insights, skills, models and methods you need to thrive and lead in these uncertain and stressful times. You will build the adaptive capacity you need to help your students and colleagues succeed. Since 2005, AMEE-ESME courses have provided face-to-face and online learning experiences to help professionals deliver the best in medical education. Today, the AMEE-ESME Leadership in Medical Education (LME) course partners with the Human Systems Dynamics Institute (HSDI) to extend that program to support educational and institutional leaders of the future. The course is based on the assumption that every health professional/teacher is a leader, and that every leader is a teacher.

Achieving Excellence in Medical Education

Achieving Excellence in Medical Education
Author: Richard B. Gunderman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2007-07-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1846283175

Offering theoretical insights and practical suggestions, Achieving Excellence in Medical Education explores an essential question facing medical educators and learners: What is our vision of educational excellence and what can be done to enhance performance? Coverage includes: resources for promoting excellence in medical education, promises and pitfalls of new educational technologies, and medical education’s role in preparing future leaders.

Health Professions and Academia

Health Professions and Academia
Author: John Paul (J.P.) Sánchez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030942236

This book increases undergraduate and graduate students' awareness of, interest in, and preparedness for academic health professions careers. It includes invaluable chapters that emphasize the importance of developing self-efficacy, knowledge, skills, and experiences not just for their resume but to build a foundation to strengthen students for the rest of their professional careers. The book provides the reader with basic information, tools, and a competitive edge through inspirational narratives from diverse graduate students and faculty, self-assessment exercises, and case-based discussion. These invaluable, authentic narratives will inspire, hearten, and encourage readers to pursue their health professional and academic careers confidently. Additionally, chapters outline the necessary tools for getting the most out of one's educational, research, service and leadership activities and optimize their competitiveness for graduate school and as pre-faculty. Unique, timely, and comprehensive, Health Professions and Academia provides undergraduate and graduate students with content to develop as competitive applicants to health-related graduate school and build a foundation from which they can establish successful careers in academia as future faculty, senior administrative leaders, and change agents.

A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers

A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers
Author: John Dent
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0702068934

The Fifth Edition of the highly praised Practical Guide for Medical Teachers provides a bridge between the theoretical aspects of medical education and the delivery of enthusiastic and effective teaching in basic science and clinical medicine. Healthcare professionals are committed teachers and this book is an essential guide to help them maximise their performance. This highly regarded book recognises the importance of educational skills in the delivery of quality teaching in medicine. The contents offer valuable insights into all important aspects of medical education today. A leading educationalist from the USA joins the book’s editorial team. The continual emergence of new topics is recognised in this new edition with nine new chapters: The role of patients as teachers and assessors; Medical humanities; Decision-making; Alternative medicine; Global awareness; Education at a time of ubiquitous information; Programmative assessment; Student engagement; and Social accountability. An enlarged group of authors from more than 15 countries provides both an international perspective and a multi-professional approach to topics of interest to all healthcare teachers.

Leadership in Surgery

Leadership in Surgery
Author: Melina R. Kibbe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319111078

How does one become a successful leader? This book teaches the theories and concepts behind leadership and explains the skills and traits needed to become a good leader. Teaching surgical faculty and trainees (i.e., residents and fellows) how to successfully lead will create more effective surgeon leaders. The skills and theories reviewed in this Volume are highly useful for numerous leadership situations, ranging from heading a committee, leading a research laboratory, directing a clinical effort, leading a Division, leading a Department, among others. By gathering these skills and theories into one comprehensive, portable book, more readers will have access to them.