May/June 2022

Six dimensions of team climate have been proven to affect team performance.

In this issue of Physician Leadership Journal, we get a taste of how experienced physician leaders inspire, persuade, and influence team performance to achieve operational and cultural transformation.

Author and physician leadership trainer Karen Nichols shares her thoughts on the development of physician leaders from the perspective of business leadership.

When building your team, consider how the individuals combine to meet the four attributes of effective teams.

Healthcare organizations should assess their vulnerability to an organizational crisis and develop a comprehensive crisis communications plan.

This article presents a deliberate five-step approach for making the business case for quality.

Protecting your most important asset — your ability to practice medicine — is critical to your financial plan.

Despite widespread enthusiasm for the idea of shared decision-making, health systems have not prioritized its use.

A framework for starting a new leadership position on the right foot.

Physician leaders can decrease healthcare disparities such as misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment, thus decreasing patient safety hazards.

Sustaining a defense against the stresses and symptoms of burnout will be difficult at the best of times. Exhibiting kindness, demonstrating goodness, and being grateful for all the positive things in our lives will improve life for our families, fri...

The authors engaged in an innovative endeavor at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, to improve connections among hospitalists.

Although effective physician–patient communication is linked to beneficial outcomes for patients and providers alike, healthcare systems have yet to adopt a standard framework for building physicians’ communication competency.

It is important that physician leaders understand the potential of high-reliability organization (HRO) principles and practices to serve as the framework for organizational improvement and sustained high performance.