article thumbnail

What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

Foster Collaboration Patients are the most critical part of the healthcare equation. Aspiring medical leaders should look for opportunities to enhance their leadership skills through CME courses, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Physicians can take feedback from others and use it to improve their leadership skills continuously.

article thumbnail

Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). However, when one of those guidelines suggested that spinal fusion surgery was unnecessary for most patients with acute low back pain, AHCPR found its budget under attack.

article thumbnail

The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. As Keri put it in the podcast, we must go beyond “a hammer and a nail” philosophy to approaching anger by developing a toolkit for anger that is vast and varied. J Palliat Med. 2021;24(11):1598-1602. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0240

Patients 109