It’s been said that leaders don’t create followers—they create more leaders.
Here at MSMS, we’re in the business of leadership creation. Physician leaders have the power to transform lives through their insight, experiences, and ability to look around corners when it comes to health care policy and practice.
In this issue, we’ll show how some Michigan physicians who are already working in important statewide advocacy roles are able to advance strategies that support quality patient care, while simultaneously nourishing their own professional growth as leaders, collaborators, and mentors.
Along the way, we’ll show you how statewide societies like ours can play a huge role in developing the leaders of tomorrow. In fact, the American Medical Association has adopted a policy encouraging physicians to serve on the boards of health care organizations like MSMS. In doing so, the association cited numerous studies showing “significant evidence that the participation of physicians in the governance of many health care organizations is associated with higher business performance, clinical quality and social outcomes.”
A blog post shared by Forbes and The Physicians Foundation shines additional light on the need for statewide physician leadership.
With today’s challenges in the house of medicine, the shifting landscape of health care and the unpredictable fate of [state and] federal legislation impacting their work, it’s essential that physicians are directly involved in health care leadership to navigate a better way forward for the profession and patients.
In other words, you can play a stronger role than you ever thought possible—and, along the way, you’ll grow personally and professionally, safeguard against the growing risk of burnout, and help shape a better tomorrow for all of us.