Archive for 'Learning from Experience'
The Journey to Competence : Similarities of Surgical and Naval Aviator Training
A few weeks ago, I went in late to work to watch my son and his mentor, a Marine Corps Captain, take off from Hanscom Field in Lexington, MA as part of a cross-country training mission. My son is stationed in Meridian, MS while he completes tailhook training, which begins in simulators and progresses to takeoffs, aerobatics, formation flying, and aircraft carrier landings in a T-45 Goshawk jet trainer, pictured above. As my son pointed out different aspects of the plane, I ..read morePosted: March 24th, 2012 under Learning from Experience.
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What I Learned at the Recent SEAK Non-clinical Careers for Physicians Course
Introduction
I really enjoyed teaching at this year’s SEAK conference on Non-clinical Careers for Physicians . I started Thursday September 23, teaching the consulting pre-course with Steve Babitsky and Jonathan Cargan.
Two days later, I spoke on Dealing with Disruptive Change: The Power of Transformation:
Transformation reflects a major change in form, function, or nature. To me, transformation results from overcoming self-limiting beliefs and taking action on stretch goals at the same time. Transformation is a way to deal with disruptive change proactively rather ..read more
Posted: October 9th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Mentoring Assistance for Physician Entrepreneurs
The inspiration for today’s ezine came from a fellow physician at a combined medical staff and Board retreat that I facilitated who asked me, “Whom do you turn to for mentoring assistance?”
Sam Horn is a treasured mentor whom I met in 2005, when I attended the Maui Writers Retreat. She taught the Non-Fiction Writing course, where I began writing my second book Collaborate for Success . She excels in teaching people how to communicate effectively.
Here is a summary from her blog ..read more
Posted: July 29th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Dare We Discuss Selling? A Review of Dave Kahle’s Recent Book
I apologize for the delay in posting. No excuses, just a learning curve that is taking me longer than expected: My new book, Getting It Done, publishes June 20, 2011, and I am learning social media skills not taught when I went to medical school. During residency, a mentor taught me that any job worth doing is worth doing imperfectly at first in order to get better.
I can only imagine what you must be thinking: “I have enough to do; ..read more
Posted: May 26th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Stuff Happens
I wanted this to be a celebratory post, and in some ways it is, just not the way I planned it.
I returned with my wife to the Canyon Ranch Spa in Lenox, MA, where last year, I learned how to cook fish at high temperature fearlessly, among other skills.
This year, I noted that I was the only male in Zumba class and decided to go the front row just behind the instructor, who is shown graciously giving me after-class merengue instruction.
It was ..read more
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Revenue Cycle Management Issues – Moving from Pain to Gain
This month, I offer you a guest post, written by Lisa Shock, who works with physicians who are tired of treadmill medicine, i.e. working harder each year and making less money. If you are interested in transitioning, why not transition from a place of strength?
If you want to learn how this practice was able to optimize its operations and earn more money without working more hours, please read on.
Case Presentation
A physician who dreamed of delivering care to a rural NC ..read more
Posted: February 20th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Collaborative Negotiation: Review of Never Lose Again
Back in a previous century, faced with 20-minute car rides between hospitals where I worked in VT and NH, I invested in audiotapes from Nightingale Conant. I selected negotiation because it was a topic about which I had no formal education. The first technique that I remember Roger Dawson reviewing was “good cop- bad cop,” where one interviewer acts like a jerk and then a white knight appears to the rescue in whom one can “confide.” I had recently walked away ..read more
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under Learning from Experience.
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Cutting-Edge Healthcare Education
I suspect that several surgeons who trained me would turn over in their graves knowing that I gave the Leadership presentation at the OPM Education Fall 2010 Business of Medicine Consortium for Residents and Fellows in Chicago this weekend.
OPM Education was founded in 2007 by two orthopedic surgeons, Bonnie Simpson Mason and J. Mandume Kerina, to educate the next generation of physicians on the business of medicine.
The points they covered included:
A warning to physicians to “take off your white coat” when ..read morePosted: October 2nd, 2010 under Learning from Experience.
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Transitioning from Clinical Medicine
Transitioning from clinical medicine is difficult for several reasons:
Unlike medical school, residency, and fellowship, the path is not clear The learning curve tends to be steep Many of us have loans to repay, families to feed, and mortgages to payThe points that I learned from my journey, which began in 1996, are that:
Clinical medicine is great training for a number of new careers in which people expect you to make major decisions based on limited information You are not wasting your clinical training Learning is ..read morePosted: September 24th, 2010 under Learning from Experience.
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Physician’s Guide to the Business of Medicine: Book Review
I apologize for not posting more entries, but in the past two months, I have moved and been involved in more construction than I ever imagined. Today began with 5 trucks in my yard. I took it as a sign that I was making progress.
Over the last two months, I have taken Jeff Gorke’s new book, The Physician’s Guide to The Business of Medicine: Dreams and Realities, with me everywhere I went.
This 149-page book is a treasure trove of useful information ..read more
Posted: August 11th, 2010 under Learning from Experience.
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