How Can Organizations Develop Physician Leaders?

Marilu Bintz, MD, MBA, FACS; Vice President of Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin

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Learning Objectives: At the end of this activity, you will be able to:
  • Define leadership development.
  • Describe the medical-administrative partnership model of leadership.

Description: Physicians can play a leadership role in helping health care organizations achieve their strategic goals — but they need to hone a skill set that medical school doesn’t always teach.

In this video, Marilu Bintz, MD, MBA, FACS; Vice President of Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin, explains how to develop physicians into leaders within a health care organization.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What do you understand the term “leadership” to mean?
  2. Do you think medical school prepares physicians to be leaders in health care organizations? How or how not?
  3. What complementary talents do you think administrators and physicians bring to a partnership?
  4. What do you think physicians can do to develop their own leadership capacities?
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