Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care (Mar 2022)
Deciding the Future of Healthcare Leadership: A Call for Undergraduate and Graduate Healthcare Administration Education
Abstract
No abstract available. Manuscript truncated after 150 words. Good medical leadership is the cornerstone of quality healthcare. However, leadership education for physicians has traditionally been largely ignored, with a focus instead on technical competence. As a result, physicians in many cases have abdicated their role as medical leaders to others, usually businessmen without medical training or expertise, and often a lack of understanding of the human issues inherent to healthcare. Recently, the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep published a manuscript, “Leadership in Action: A Student-Run Designated Emphasis in Healthcare Leadership”, describing a curriculum designed to develop future healthcare leaders (1). Hopefully this and similar curricula will prepare physicians in setting direction, demonstrating personal qualities, working with others, managing services, and improving services (2). The US suffers from a crisis in healthcare partially rooted in a lack of physician- and patient-oriented leadership which has led to “hyperfinancialization” in many instances. Beginning in the 1980’s there has …
