TY - JOUR
T1 - Making Management Skills a Core Component of Medical Education
AU - Myers, Christopher G.
AU - Pronovost, Peter J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - Physicians are being called upon to engage in greater leadership and management in increasingly complex and dynamic health care organizations. Yet, management skills are largely undeveloped in medical education. Without formal management training in the medical curriculum, physicians are left to cultivate their leadership and management abilities through a haphazard array of training programs or simply through trial and error, with consequences that may range from frustration among staff to reduced quality of care and increased risk of patient harm. To address this issue, the authors posit that medical education needs a more systematic focus on topics related to management and organization, such as individual decision making, interpersonal communication, team knowledge sharing, and organizational culture. They encourage medical schools to partner with business school faculty or other organizational scholars to offer a "Management 101" course in the medical curriculum to provide physicians-in-training with an understanding of these topics and raise the quality of physician leadership and management in modern health care organizations.
AB - Physicians are being called upon to engage in greater leadership and management in increasingly complex and dynamic health care organizations. Yet, management skills are largely undeveloped in medical education. Without formal management training in the medical curriculum, physicians are left to cultivate their leadership and management abilities through a haphazard array of training programs or simply through trial and error, with consequences that may range from frustration among staff to reduced quality of care and increased risk of patient harm. To address this issue, the authors posit that medical education needs a more systematic focus on topics related to management and organization, such as individual decision making, interpersonal communication, team knowledge sharing, and organizational culture. They encourage medical schools to partner with business school faculty or other organizational scholars to offer a "Management 101" course in the medical curriculum to provide physicians-in-training with an understanding of these topics and raise the quality of physician leadership and management in modern health care organizations.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001627
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001627
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28248694
AN - SCOPUS:85014062339
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 92
SP - 582
EP - 584
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 5
ER -