Physician Leadership Development: A Pilot Program for Radiation Oncology Residents

The modern practice of medicine is reliant on highly functioning teams, and physicians are often charged with leading these teams. Physician leadership has increasingly been recognized to correlate with hospital organizational success: Quality, innovation, and management scores are demonstrably higher in hospitals in which the chief executive officer (CEO) is a physician (1). Health care systems such as Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic are notable for a longstanding history of CEOs who were trained as physicians first, and a disproportionate number of highly ranked hospitals are indeed led by physicians (1, 2).

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