As healthcare changes, the industry is demanding more physician leaders.
Physician's Money Digest identified six pertinent skills a physician leader needs to be successful.
Here are six essential skills a physician leader needs:
• Teamwork
• Emotional intelligence
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Effective communication
• Adaptability
• Can identify and grasp the metrics for physician impact and output
In addition to these skills, many experts argue a physician leader must be able to strategically manage its organizations' roles, and the leader has to take on different roles to ensure the organization's success.
To produce successful physician leaders, some healthcare experts say the industry needs to conduct more research on collaborative leadership, which entails leaders who facilitate trust, forgo passive aggressive behavior, exercise transparency, utilize resources properly and effectively manage relationships between decision rights, accountability and rewards.
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