Creative Strategies in Physician Leadership

Physician Leaders and Their Accountability for Primary Care Shortage

Francine Gaillour — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:29:14 +0000

An article in the Wall Street Journal, “Medical Schools Can’t Keep Up” projects a shortage of 150,000 physicians in 15 years got me thinking about what role physician leaders must take in addressing what will be be a shortage of primary care physicians.. If you ask physicians how to make family medicine more attractive to [...]

What Can Military Medicine Teach Physician Leaders?

Francine Gaillour — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:40:38 +0000

This month’s issue of the ACPE’s Physician Executive highlights Military Medicine. The timing is interesting for me because over the past six months I’ve been supporting physician adoption of technology in military health facilities through a Department of Defense contractor, KSJ Associates. Not having any experience in military medicine, this project has been fascinating on [...]

How to Get Physicians to Work Together to Achieve Quality Goals?

Francine Gaillour — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:49:53 +0000

How do physician leaders get physicians to work together to achieve quality goals? At the recent annual ACPE meeting, a focus group was pulled together by McKesson corporation to address that topic. “Nine physician executives volunteered to participate in the study. They came from a variety of different positions and many were still in practice. [...]