Background: Career success as an Internal Medicine (IM) physician requires more than exceptional medical knowledge and patient care. In professional practice, IM physicians hold leadership positions in multidisciplinary patient care groups, spearhead change management initiatives and lead quality improvement projects1,2. Despite the documented importance of physician leadership skills3,4, there is little time devoted to leadership [...]

Background: An innovative team of practicing physician leaders launched a Physician on Duty (POD) program in order to provide daily, pro-active clinical leadership to our Mission Control center. Our Mission Control includes, in addition to the physician team, a clinical team performing centralized staffing, bed placement, transfer center, RN care expediting, and ambulance dispatch services [...]

Background: Physician wellness has become a popular topic with reports of burnout among 50% of hospitalists nationwide. Evidence shows that managers directly impact employee engagement with up to half of provider burnout attributed to the leadership style of a physician’s immediate supervisor. While 360 feedback is a common method used to evaluate employers in the [...]

Background: The evolving COVID-19 pandemic has raised direct patient care clinical questions that require rapid answers and flexibility in data generation and analysis. Thorough and reliable patient-level data is not available at the local, state, national, or international levels. Institutional efforts to produce datasets derived from electronic health records (EHR) can take months to years [...]