What It's Really Like for Physicians to Work for a Hospital

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The Pros and Cons of Hospital Employment

This course discusses the structure and means of profitability of a hospital; how hospital management aligns with physicians; challenges in the relationship between physicians and hospitals; differences between for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals, and how these affect physicians; and trends in and the future of hospital employment for physicians. This course will cover:

Challenges that hospitals face
The changing relationship between physicians and hospitals
Compensation and productivity targets within a hospital
How hospitals achieve profitability
Improving physician alignment with hospitals
Moving into hospital leadership

6 CHAPTERS

The Challenges Hospitals Face

This chapter describes the types of oversights that hospitals are subject to, and the financial pressures and challenges that hospitals deal with.

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How Hospital/Physician Relations Have Changed

Physicians will learn how hospitals' working relationships with physicians have evolved over the years, how employed physicians fit into the hospital hierarchy, and modes of employment with physicians have changed, and what this means for physician employment today.

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Physicians Employed by Hospitals

Physicians will learn about the pros and cons of hospital employment, how hospital-based practices fare under the hospital's aegis, productivity targets, and compensation within the hospital structure.

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Hospital Structure and Profitability

This chapter will describe the role of a hospital's executive leadership, the differences between not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals, and what this means to physicians.

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Physician Alignment With Hospital Leadership

This chapter will discuss hospitals' challenges in aligning physicians with their goals, ways to improve alignment, and how to develop physician leadership.

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The Future for Hospitals and Physicians

This chapter discusses possible future directions for hospitals, based on changes made for ACOs, bundled payments, and other arrangements.

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AUTHORS

Gregory J. Mertz, MBA

Managing Director, Physician Strategies Group LLC, Norfolk, Virginia

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PHYSICIAN BUSINESS ACADEMY

Medscape Physician Business Academy is designed to help all physicians, employed and self-employed as well as new and more established practicing physicians, become successful in their medical practice and career by providing the essential business information that most medical schools and residency programs don't teach.

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