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Know This to Be a Great Hospital Quality Medical Director – 133

2021-03-30T18:18:06-05:00

And Prep for Your Interview This week, John describes what a great hospital quality medical director needs to know to succeed. By understanding and implementing these concepts, the medical director will be able to lead a strong QI program. A hospital's quality improvement program is designed to ensure that medical care is undeniably effective, evidence-based, timely and error-free. The field has exploded over the past 30 years, with an increasing emphasis on measuring and reporting outcomes of care. [...]

Know This to Be a Great Hospital Quality Medical Director – 1332021-03-30T18:18:06-05:00

How This Heart Surgeon Found a Rewarding Nonclinical Niche – 132

2021-03-30T18:13:04-05:00

Interview with Dr. Robert Applebaum On this episode of the PNC podcast, Dr. Robert Applebaum joins me to discuss the transition into his nonclinical niche as a physician advisor after many years of clinical practice. Rob’s training was in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. He spent decades working in private practice, then as a hospital employed physician. He is the first guest I’ve had on the podcast that I have worked with in real life. When we met, I was the [...]

How This Heart Surgeon Found a Rewarding Nonclinical Niche – 1322021-03-30T18:13:04-05:00

How to Prepare Financially for a Career Pivot with Ryan Inman – 071

2021-03-23T14:41:39-05:00

Create a Written Plan I’ve been interviewing experts in physician career transition for over a year. So, I thought it important to discuss how to prepare financially. For many of you, loss of income is one of the big fears that stops you from even considering a change. Much of that can be ameliorated with good planning. So, I decided to get an expert on the show to help us with that issue. My guest is a financial [...]

How to Prepare Financially for a Career Pivot with Ryan Inman – 0712021-03-23T14:41:39-05:00

How to Get a Great Job with a CRO with Dr. Christian Urrea – 070

2021-03-23T14:32:06-05:00

Leverage Communication Skills Dr. Christian Urrea is currently working as a medical monitor for Novum Pharmaceutical Research Services, a Contract Research Organization (CRO). He graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine in 2012, then landed a job as a Specialist in QI and UM for a community hospital before moving to Novum as a Medical Monitor. In today’s interview, Christian provides great advice as he describes his career journey. His comments are especially useful to physicians who did [...]

How to Get a Great Job with a CRO with Dr. Christian Urrea – 0702021-03-23T14:32:06-05:00

Meet the Modern Physician Advisor – Interview with Dr. Timothy Owolabi – 012

2021-03-19T19:32:20-05:00

In this podcast episode, I talk with physician advisor and medical director, Timothy Owolabi. But first, I want to describe an opportunity and a podcast review. Opportunity Here’s the potential opportunity: I decided to participate in Michael Hyatt’s goal setting program called 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever. I know it is a great program, and I'm a big believer in setting annual goals. It was something our hospital management team did every year and it generated [...]

Meet the Modern Physician Advisor – Interview with Dr. Timothy Owolabi – 0122021-03-19T19:32:20-05:00

Building a Great Hospital Quality Improvement Program

2017-06-15T07:13:57-05:00

“How would you design a great hospital quality improvement program?” A distinguished gentleman who looks to be in his 60s is asking the question. He and I are sitting across from each other at the end of a long, dark mahogany conference table. I don’t remember how I came to be here. I probably look a bit confused. “John. Tell me… How would you do that?” […]

Building a Great Hospital Quality Improvement Program2017-06-15T07:13:57-05:00

Preparing to Be a Better Physician Leader – Part 2

2017-03-31T13:46:59-05:00

I started this series by discussing the attitudes or perspectives that physician leaders should understand and adopt. I would like to complete it with a description of some practical skills that you should seek to learn or enhance. If you are early in the journey, you can try to observe these skills in others as you're preparing to be a better physician leader. This is a process. Like any new realm of learning, we follow a path from awareness, to [...]

Preparing to Be a Better Physician Leader – Part 22017-03-31T13:46:59-05:00

5 Reasons Why You Must Lead the Crusade to Abolish Hospital Sentinel Events

2017-02-20T10:09:08-06:00

I was sitting in a small conference room. Having worked full-time as hospital Chief Medical officer, I was now interviewing for a position in a larger institution. Midway through my interviews, I was talking with the hospital board chairman. He brought up the topic of hospital sentinel events. Apparently there had been a sentinel event at his organization and the chair and his board were quite concerned. He explained that it was something they had not experienced before. They [...]

5 Reasons Why You Must Lead the Crusade to Abolish Hospital Sentinel Events2017-02-20T10:09:08-06:00

How to Prepare Quality Reports Your Board is Begging to See

2017-02-09T12:03:45-06:00

For this post, I'm going to “nerd out.” I love using data. And I love monitoring, improving and discussing quality and safety. That was one of the fun things I did as hospital CMO. I also enjoy playing around with ways to display data, especially for lay people with a limited understanding of statistics. So today we will make our way to the “popular” Bubble Graph (well – it's popular with me at least), as I demonstrate how to prepare [...]

How to Prepare Quality Reports Your Board is Begging to See2017-02-09T12:03:45-06:00
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