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Medical Staff Leader Connection, July 15, 2010
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In the August issue of Medical Staff Briefing, I discuss the importance of spelling out the medical staff’s expectations of leaders in a comprehensive position description. I spoke with Guenther Baerje, BSIT, CPMSM, HACP, director of medical staff management at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, and he said the trick is to make position descriptions specific enough to accomplish the duties of the position, but not so specific that the position descriptions set leaders up for failure.
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