Moving Up From Within

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Moving Up From Within

• Brent Ruoff, M.D.
• Chief, Emergency Medicine Division

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Make a Self Assessment
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• Is this the correct career path?
• Less patient care
• More conflicts
• Less control over your time

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Make a Self Assessment

• What will be your leadership style?
• Leader vs. boss
• Honest
• Competent
• Vision
• Inspirational limbic resonance
• Seek to improve your skill set

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Make a Self Assessment

• The Concept of Power
• Legitimate
• Referent
• Informational
• Coercion vs. rewarding

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Choose a Mentor

• Typically within the discipline and/or
  institution
• Match your desired leadership style

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Challenges!

• The transition to leadership
• Competition
• Respect
• Supervising former and senior partners
• Recognition outside the department
• Your professional agenda vs. current leadership

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Getting Ready

• Intramural activities
• Learn the hospital and institutional Realpolitik
• Insert yourself into valued roles patient
  safety, quality, process improvement, finance
• Understand advancement in academic rank

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Getting Ready

• Extramural activities
• Advanced training filling the skill gaps!
• Gain regional and national recognition

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Along the way . . .

• Acknowledge your ambition it is not responsible
  for conflict!
• Sacrifice in the present to gain future political
  capital
• Maintain your personal relationships
• CONTINUE IN CLINICAL EXCELLENCE, THE KEY TO
  RESPECT AND ADVANCEMENT!

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