Three skills doctors need to become effective executives
Physician leaders in hospitals and other healthcare-related fields must focus on operations management, people leadership and setting a business strategy, according to a Harvard Business Review article published online April 7.
Sachin H. Jain, MD, chief medical officer of the CareMore Health System, wrote that doctors who become executives need to use different skills than the ones they developed in clinical training and practice.
However, Jain suggested that physicians continue to maintain their clinical identity and balance the values of medicine with the realities of running a business.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.