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Leadership Skills for Medical Staff Officers

18 CME Credits - 2.5 Days (Live Program )

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Leadership Skills for Medical Staff Officers

Course Description

Gain the skills to be a more effective leader and get the most out of the management side of your job-managing people, meetings, finance, quality and organizational politics.

  • Establishing standards of behavior and performance, including managing poor performance.
  • Credentialing and privileging, including non-physicians.
  • Understanding and developing leadership styles.
  • Running effective meetings.
  • Hospital Finance: vocabulary, understanding reports and the economics of revenue and cost.
  • Organizational politics and using power.
  • Quality and patient safety.
  • Effective peer review.

Objectives

  • To expand your knowledge of financial statements, strategic plans, and the operating budget.
  • To use the language of finance to more effectively communicate with CFOs and administration.
  • To introduce you to the economics behind the importance of leveraging the revenue cycle and managing the cost structure of the hospital.
  • To understand how financial perspective is being tied to important "non-financial" data as part of a comprehensive set of dashboard indicators pertaining to the evaluation of hospital performance.
  • To define roles and responsibilities of the medical staff, medical staff leaders, and the MEC.
  • To determine principals of an effective credentialing and privileging program and bring to light privileging myths and realities.
  • To identify and clarify the roles of physician leaders in reducing medical errors and establishing quality of care.
  • To identify current approaches to performance improvement currently used in healthcare including peer review, establishing performance expectations, and feedback reports.
  • To understand small group dynamics and organizational politics and how you can use this information to more productively manage meetings and lead groups.

Faculty

Albert L. Fritz, MHA

HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC

Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS

HG Healthcare Consultants, LLC

Mark Covaleski, PhD

University of Wisconsin

Michael Guthrie, MD, MBA, FACPE

University of Colorado – Denver


CME

The American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing education for physicians.

The American College of Physician Executives designates this educational activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Delivery

Live Progam see below for dates and locations


Course Agenda

Day One - Morning

  • Medical Staff Leadership
    • Strengthening the Influence and Accountability of Physicians
    • Establishing Standards of Behavior and Performance
    • Building Consensus Among Physicians
    • Skills and policies for managing disruptive physicians

Day One - Afternoon

  • Credentialing and Privileging
    • The myths and Realities of Credentialing
    • Reducing the Risk of Lawsuits
    • Resolving Cross-Specialty and New Technology Privileging Dilemmas
    • Reconciling "Turf" Battles

Day Two - Morning

  • Quality and Patient Safety
    • Creating a Culture of Quality
    • Current Frameworks for System Performance Improvement
    • Quality, Patient Safety and the Role of Physician Leaders in Reducing Medical Errors.
    • Effective approaches to Peer Review
    • Physician Performance Feedback
  • Organizational Politics
    • When to Use the "Formal" Organization and How to Use the "Informal" Organization
    • Effective Uses of Power
    • Building Support for Ideas, Goals and Missions

Day Two - Afternoon

  • Hospital Finance for Medical Staff Officers
    • Essentials of Budgeting and Financial Statements
    • Using the Language of Finance to Effectively Communicate with CFO's and Hospital Administration
    • Making Effective Resource Allocation Decisions

Day Three - Morning

  • Running Effective Meetings and Organizational Politics
    • When are Meetings Really Necessary?
    • Structuring Meetings that Yield Clear Results
    • Dealing with "No-Shows," "Late Shows" and Disruptive Personalities
    • Using Different-Sized Groups for Committees & Task Forces

Disclaimer

The faculty may exchange the order according to their teaching preference.

Purchase

Member Price: $870 - You Save $75
Non Member Price: $945

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