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Embracing Change

The ability to embrace change is essential to being successful as a leader, but, for many, the natural response to change is fear or resistance. Fortunately, we can train our minds to better manage change. This course provides practical strategies…

Advanced Financial Decision Making

Physician leaders cannot dismiss the importance of finance in strategic decision making. Consequently, applying financial principles can aid the process and result in improved patient care. Become a stronger physician leader by understanding how to apply flexible budgeting and alternative…

Interdisciplinary Relationship Management

Managing professional relationships is something that all physicians must do every day. However, this skill isn’t as easy as it sounds. With different personalities, priorities, and approaches to communication, relationships can become complicated in the blink of an eye. This…

Managing Task Forces, Committees and Work Groups

Running a small group is an important undertaking, and leaders have a challenging role to play in coordinating meeting strategies. Leaders must learn to manage their groups effectively and efficiently to encourage the future success of organizational initiatives. Effective meetings…

Assessing the Health of Your Organization

Many leaders hesitate to respond to organizational health concerns because the solutions seem out of reach. Assessing the health of an organization can be a complex undertaking, but the task is far from impossible. Healthy organizations exchange politics and confusion…

Practical Tools for Physician Self-Care

With upwards of 50% of physicians suffering from burnout, having knowledge of the research and theory behind this destructive force may be key to combating these problems once and for all. This course will discuss the theory and research behind…

Leading Complex Organizations

The job of a health care leader is never easy. Those leading complex organizations must be able to successfully manage many moving parts during times of change, crisis, conflict, and uncertainty. This course will explore differences between traditional and complex…

Building Physician Wellness

The physical and psychological tolls of burnout are widely researched today, but what is burnout really and how does it affect physicians? Building Physician Wellness takes a top-down approach to viewing burnout by first allowing physicians to break their prevailing…

Proceed Until Apprehended

Leaders are able to build organizational trust when the workplace is consistent, predictable, and non-threatening. Creating this type of environment might feel impossible at times, but trust within an organization can be achieved with some effort. The “Proceed until apprehended”…

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients: Providers’ Obligations

Claims by deaf and hard of hearing patients against their healthcare providers are increasingly common. These claims tend to allege that providers fail to provide in-person interpreters or that they delay treatment or refuse to accept deaf or hard of…