Association for surgical educationPhysician leadership is essential to the survival of teaching hospitals
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Forces confronting the academic medical center
Academic medical centers presently face many new challenges, the greatest of which may be financial constraints due to market forces and changes in reimbursement. AMCs “must still compete with managed care. Studies indicate that in areas where managed care penetration is the highest, [AMCs] are not faring well.”4 Theoretically, the difference between AMCs and their private counterparts is the former’s mission of education and research; in reality, without patient care, neither of these
Corporate America: a primer for the health care industry
Why should the health care system pay attention to the recent history of American corporate industry? The entry of the US health care system into the classic economic marketplace is akin to the impact of the global economy on the American business enterprise almost 2 decades ago; for various reasons, both systems had been protected from larger market forces and each has suffered culture shock with the new environment. It simply stands to reason, given the tremendous success of the American
Primary features of the future AMC
Souba13 believes that the main focus of AMCs must remain educating future medical professionals, offering quality health care, and continuing pertinent research. An additional, vital component must be added, however, that integrates the tripartite mission of the AMC: creating solid business ventures, for both internal and external customers. In doing so, strategic advantages will be created that are unique to AMCs; this is the market niche that only the AMC, with its extensive intellectual
Successful leadership competencies for the AMC
The leaders within AMC have an exciting future ahead of them as they visualize, articulate, and implement the changes imperative for the success of such organizations. Their major role is “to create a powerful vision that allows room for things to occur that are as yet undreamed of.”21
The following nine traits, in varying combinations, are typical of most successful leaders: (1) charisma, (2) individual consideration, (3) intellectual stimulation, (4) courage, (5) dependability, (6)
Conclusion
Now that the health care industry is, for the first time, subject to classic market forces, “those attempting to direct their organizations proactively are recognizing that they cannot succeed without a higher degree of physician leadership than the health care system has previously demanded.”31 Clearly, “physician executives have unique roles to play in the changing medical division of labor and restructuring of delivery of services…physician executives fill a new set of managerial vacancies
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