How Dr. Moores’ Concepts And Programs Can Help Improve Physician Leadership
As medical innovations change the shape of care every day, there’s an opportunity for impact that healthcare educators, leaders, and professional societies can use to improve the performance of their entire systems: physician leadership development for all physicians, every day.
Granting that the ultimate “product” in healthcare is better patient health, enhanced physician leadership by all physicians at all levels – not just in the C-suite – can improve the work environment, decrease turnover, and create better patient experience and outcomes. Hospitals are highly stressful environments and strong leadership in the clinic and at the bedside can lesson burdens, elevate motivation, and create team bonds that withstand the pressure. When all physicians see themselves as leaders, reflect on this core competency, and strive to improve, it enhances team performance. Better team performance inevitably creates better patient experience and patient outcomes.
A practitioner and student of leadership for 40 years, Dr. Leon Moores enjoys working with decision-makers at every level of the physician-leader pipeline to help current and future physicians see themselves as competent, confident leaders through study, reflection, and feedback.
Key individuals Dr. Moores consults with are:
- Medical School Deans, faculty
- Healthcare system CEOs, CMOs, VPs HR
- Designated Institutional Officials, Residency and Fellowship Program Directors
- Medical Society Presidents and leadership development committees
By convincing physicians that all of us are leading every day, that leadership can be improved upon, and that improving physician leadership from the bedside to the boardroom is both feasible and worthwhile, we can change our healthcare system. Better physician leadership at all levels will improve team performance, decrease turnover, improve patient experience, and ultimately – the reason we all went into medicine – improve health outcomes.
Dr Moores is interested in learning from you about your organization’s needs, strengths, and opportunities with regard to physician leadership.
Over the next 25-30 years we can change the culture from one of “accidental leadership training” to a structured, graduated, and effective program of leadership development for all doctors. When the culture reflects constant learning and improvement of this core competency, we will have reached a key milestone.