Transforming the Health Ecosystem: Physician Leadership & Change Management

Description

Today's complex healthcare landscape requires physician leaders to guide teams, bridge divides, maintain quality care, and drive improvements. Additionally, strong leadership is vital for advancing population health and equity. This online, self-paced course focuses on leadership, engagement, and change management to transform health systems.

This course aims to equip preventive medicine and primary care physicians with strategies to develop leadership capacities and achieve buy-in from team members, leaders, and stakeholders/community members by understanding how to manage change to positively impact population health outcomes. The goal is to advance system-based approaches to improve population, community, and individual health - increasing healthcare efficiency and effectiveness while addressing social determinants of health.

ACPM defines health systems transformation as: “systems-based approaches to improving population, community, and individual health by incorporating and addressing the behavioral and social determinants of health and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare”.

Learning Objectives

Define effective physician leadership;
Reflect on one’s leadership skills and identify opportunities for growth;
Outline the responsibility of leaders to bring awareness to implicit biases while advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a health equity focus;
Describe key skills that maximize team performance;
Outline approaches to engage internal partners across an organization;
Understand an apply appropriate leadership skills to cultivate effective partnerships with the community and external partners;
Describe approaches to successfully navigate change in a health ecosystem.

Faculty Bios

Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA