January/February 2023

Physician Leadership Journal

January/February 2023

Vol. 10, No. 1 · 15 articles

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  1. We Need More Physicians Engaged with Leadership — Now!

    PLJ January/February 2023 Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)

    The healthcare industry continues to face an era of seismic change and disruption, one in which the demand for effective physician leadership is rising more dramatically than ever.

  2. Three Things a Physician Leader Must Know About Followers

    PLJ January/February 2023 Jonathan Bolton, MD, MA, MPhil, MMM

    This article is for the leader who wants to understand followers better: their motivations, their varieties, and their insights.

  3. The Physician Leader’s Guide to Thriving in Dyads, Triads, and Other Multidisciplinary Team-Based Management Models

    PLJ January/February 2023 Lucy Zielinski, Donald Lurye, MD, MMM, CPE, FAAFP, FAAPL

    In this article, we discuss the personal traits and key behaviors that physician leaders must adopt to be effective in team-based management models.

  4. The Coach’s Corner: Do You Have Elephant Skin?

    PLJ January/February 2023 Robert Hicks, PhD

    How to develop tough-mindedness in the face of criticism.

  5. Preparing for Retirement — Financial Readiness

    PLJ January/February 2023 Neil Baum, MD, David F. Mobley, MD

    No one on the verge of retiring wants to suddenly realize they can’t afford to retire. That’s why it’s essential to start planning long before you hang up the stethoscope.

  6. Medicine as a Job and Not as a Career — Recruiting and Retaining an Evolving Physician Workforce

    PLJ January/February 2023 Kenneth G. Poole, Jr., MD, MBA, FACP, CPE, Zachary Seidel, MBA

    Health system leaders are facing a rapidly evolving workforce supply-demand problem in healthcare delivery. It is thus imperative for firms to leverage inclusion and belonging as strategies to navigate this change.

  7. Legal Liability and Basic/Advanced Cardiac Life Support

    PLJ January/February 2023 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    Good Samaritan laws are designed to encourage individuals, including physicians, to render medical care gratuitously in emergency situations. Through these laws, physicians who act in good faith to render emergency ca...

  8. Knowing Your Worth

    PLJ January/February 2023 Sue Miller, MD, FAAP

    A neonatologist shares the rewards and challenges of her career path.

  9. Key Elements of Successful Retirement Planning

    PLJ January/February 2023 Joel M. Blau, CFP, Ronald J. Paprocki, JD, CFP, CHBC

    Procrastination and poor planning can result in the need to continue working in some manner during retirement or reduce the income desired during the retirement years.

  10. Independent Consulting and Entrepreneurship as a Nonclinical Career

    PLJ January/February 2023 Sylvie Stacy, MD, MPH

    Author Sylvie Stacy, MD, MPH, discusses self-employment options available for nonclinical physicians.

  11. How Should Physicians Address the Issue of an Impaired Colleague?

    PLJ January/February 2023 Matthew J. Mazurek, MD, MHA, CPE, FACHE, FASA, FAAPL

    Anesthesiologist and behavior management expert Matthew J. Mazurek, MD, MHA, CPE, FACHE, FASA, offers guidance on how to address physician impairment.

  12. Highlights from SoundPractice — Celebrating 100 Episodes

    PLJ January/February 2023 Michael J. Sacopulos, JD, Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)

    The following are excerpts chosen by AAPL editorial staff, plus additional commentary from Peter Angood, MD, president and CEO of the American Association for Physician Leadership.

  13. Extra Degrees or Certifications: How to Choose

    PLJ January/February 2023 Lola Butcher

    Any degree or certification that has merit requires considerable time and effort. Obtaining another advanced degree is quite different from pursuing a medical degree.

  14. Common Threats to Validity: What Every Leader Needs to Know

    PLJ January/February 2023 Anthony Slonim, MD, DrPH, CPE, FAAPL

    A physician leader should understand the major components of construct, internal, and external validity not only for their own leadership research, but also for research and data that they consume in their roles as le...

  15. Applying a Rural Lens to Physician Leadership in Quality Improvement: A Scoping Review

    PLJ January/February 2023 Nicholas Lloyd-Kuzik, MPPGA, Christine Carthew, MPH, Harsh Hundal, MD, MPA, Jude Kornelsen, PhD

    The objective of this scoping review was to better understand the impact physician leaders have on QI and systems transformation, the factors that affect physicians’ abilities to lead QI, and how these insights may in...