A complex and dynamic health care environment requires medical professionals of the future to be trained to deliver high-quality clinical care, as well as help address organizational problems that may be outside the clinical arena. Evidence shows that effective clinician leadership in health care organizations is linked to superior patient care outcomes.1 However, most physicians are ill prepared to undertake responsibilities requiring organizational and management skills because medical school and residency training offer limited opportunities to learn them.2 We present a framework, derived from thematic analysis of qualitative data from semistructured interviews, which identifies key capabilities to enable physicians to innovate solutions to complex organizational problems.
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