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Leadership skills are crucial for physicians, who represent one of the most important occupations in our society. Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For these reasons, physicians must learn about leadership skills not just as part of their general education but also as part of their continuing medical education (CME). Cotinue Reading...

Leadership skills are crucial for physicians, who represent one of the most important occupations in our society. Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For these reasons, physicians must learn about leadership skills not just as part of their general education but also as part of their continuing medical education (CME). Cotinue Reading...

Leadership with Dr. Koh

Learning how to lead as a physician out of medical school can be difficult. Medical schools often fail to properly train their graduates in leadership. This leads to graduates with little to no confidence as a leader or an over-inflated sense of leadership ability that can lead to difficult team dynamics.Cotinue Reading...

Sometimes, we can't always have a situation where both parties at the negotiation table win. Sometimes, someone is going to have to give up and wait. Maybe, it's not permanent and maybe it is. We've seen that with the pandemic, especially in the beginning. Doctors and nurses were in a panic when there was a lack of safety gear to protect themselves from both potential and documented COVID patients during a time of uncertainty and fear. There were a lot of angry healthcare workers, and many felt the leadership did not care. There were many descriptive, heated social media posts and angry people protesting on TV and radio.Cotinue Reading...

In this episode of the The Becker's Healthcare Podcast, Dr. Elsie Koh, Chief Medical Officer at American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention and Founder of LEAD Physician and Kurt Scott, Founder & CEO at the Physician Leadership Career Network discuss traits of great physician leaders, how to break into leadership, and more.Cotinue Reading...

Getting to the top 3 finalists

(Hint: It takes a lot of work)

By Kurt Scott & Elsie Koh, MD

My last article was from the organization’s perspective; Using the “Vision Statement” to help make your final evaluation and decision. This time let’s look at it from the candidate’s point of view. Cotinue Reading...