Featured blog post: When it's over, it's over
Medical Staff Leader Connection, January 13, 2011
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January is the month of looking forward and back and a good time to review the topic of employment transitions. Clinicians enjoy almost total job security, but management is a different story. Hospitalist programs are called upon to deliver ever-higher levels of clinical quality and patient satisfaction, but program directors have few tools to deliver on these mandates and must get good work from inexperienced physicians placed under high stress. Judging by the number of directorship opportunities being advertised for established programs, a lot of directors have trouble delivering on the mandates. It will probably get worse as the government squeezes hospital revenues harder and harder; I’ll have more about that next month. The rest of this piece will discuss what to do when a job ends.
Read more of this blog post by Richard Rohr, MD, MMM, FACP, FHM on MedicalStaffLeader.com
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