Leadership in Academic Medicine: Capabilities and Conditions for Organizational Success

摘要

During the past decade, the health care industry has experienced an upheaval that is expected to continue into the foreseeable future. Patients and physicians alike feel shortchanged by this rapid and perplexing transformation.1 "This new order in health care, one governed by commercialism and free competition, presents academic medical centers and university physicians with unique challenges," observed Wiley W. Souba, MD.2 All 3 missions of academic medicine-teaching the next generation of physicians, conducting groundbreaking research, and providing high-quality care to patients-are jeopardized by this future.2#