Leader
Definition
As Leaders, physicians engage with others to contribute to a vision of a high-quality health care system and take responsibility for the delivery of excellent patient care through their activities as clinicians, administrators, scholars, or teachers.
Description
The CanMEDS Leader Role describes the engagement of all physicians in shared decision making for the operation and ongoing evolution of the health care system. As a societal expectation, physicians demonstrate collaborative leadership and management within the health care system. At a system level, physicians contribute to the development and delivery of continuously improving health care and engage with others in working toward this goal. Physicians integrate their personal lives with their clinical, administrative, scholarly, and teaching responsibilities. They function as individual care providers, as members of teams, and as participants and leaders in the health care system locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.
KEY CONCEPTS
- Administration: 4.1, 4.2
- Career development: 4.2
- Complexity of systems: 1.1
- Consideration of justice, efficiency, and effectiveness in the allocation of health care resources: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2
- Effective committee participation: 3.2
- Health human resources: 2.1, 4.2
- Information technology for health care: 1.4
- Leading change: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 3.2
- Management of personnel: 4.2
- Negotiation: 3.1
- Organizing, structuring, budgeting, and financing: 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- Personal leadership skills: 3.1, 4.1
- Physician remuneration: 4.2
- Physician roles and responsibilities in the health care system: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 3.2
- Physicians as active participant-architects within the health care system: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2
- Practice management to maintain a sustainable practice and physician health: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- Priority-setting: 2.1, 3.2, 4.1
- Quality improvement: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 3.2, 4.3
- Stewardship: 2.1, 2.2
- Supervising others: 4.2
- Systems thinking: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2
- Time management: 4.1, 4.2
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