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Registration Now Open for IMQ/PACE Stepping Up To Leadership Training Program

If you’re a Department Chair, Chief of Staff, Committee Chair, or in any active position on a medical staff, you don’t want to miss the upcoming Stepping Up to Leadership conference.  This is a great chance to network with colleagues and enhance the practical skills you need to succeed!  
The Stepping Up to Leadership program is widely recognized as the “go to” course for acquiring knowledge and skills to successfully lead a medical staff.  In addition to interactive training in communicating and handling disruptive or impaired individuals, the 2016 program has added:

• Collaboration and team building between the hospital and medical staff.  This includes professionalism, the skills needed to be an effective leader, how to get the medical staff engaged, and what the hospital cannot do without the medical staff;
• How to minimize stress and avoid burnout while maintaining the medical staff’s critical role in providing care to the patients;
• Meeting management skills; 
• Aging Physician policies – development, implementation and legal considerations; and
• A legal update on current issues of importance to California physicians

Developed by the Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) and the UC San Diego PACE Program, Stepping Up to Leadership offers unique hands-on and interactive learning opportunities and excellent faculty in a beautiful, relaxing, San Diego location.  Thanks to a generous grant from the Physicians Foundation, this course is offered at prices significantly lower than other courses.

• For the Brochure and registration information, click here.
  Stepping Up to Leadership Conference
  March 10 – 11, 2016
  Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
  www.physician-leadership.org 
  
  Please note that there is a discount of $200 for SBCMS/CMA members. 

You can also contact: 

Leslie Anne Iacopi, MBA
Manager, Medical Staff Survey Program and Professionalism Program
Phone: 415.882.5167
Email: liacopi@imq.org

Stepping Up to Leadership Courses Available Online

Couldn’t make it to the IMQ-PACE Stepping Up to Leadership conference this spring? Why not make the conference content come to you? Selected courses from Stepping Up to Leadership are now available online at IMQ Online Education!  All content is available for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM—take this opportunity to earn CME credit at a time and place that’s convenient for you.

Stepping Up to Leadership courses cover a variety of important skills for successfully running a medical staff, particularly issues of communication, problem-solving, and improving outcomes for patients and staff.  Choose from Nancy Dickey, MD’s keynote presentation, Successful Leadership: What It Really Takes, Donald David, MD on The Role of the Physician In Patient Safety, Carol Havens, MD on Using CME as an Organizational Improvement Tool, and a 2014 Legal Update by Greg Abrams, Esq. covering hot medico-legal topics in California. To browse the full IMQ Online Education catalog, visit http://imq.inreachce.com.

Stepping Up to Leadership Training, March 6-8, 2014

The Stepping Up to Leadership program was created by the Institute for Medical Quality and the PACE Program at the University of California at San Diego in response to a commonly expressed need for better, more practical hands-on training for medical staff leaders. “For years, physicians asked for a program that would empower them to take on leadership roles,” said William Norcross, MD, founder of the PACE Program and an originator of the conference. A grant from The Physicians Foundation helped the conference’s organizers meet their goal of making the program accessible to a broad spectrum of medical staff leaders. “Thanks to a generous grant from The Physicians Foundation, we are able to offer a hands-on, interactive program at a fraction of the normal registration fee,” said Dr. Norcross.

The Stepping Up to Leadership program made its debut in 2011 with a program emphasizing communications skills and addressing issues of disruptive and impaired professionals. Now in its third year, the 2014 conference will cover all of the original content, with an added emphasis on aligning the needs of medical staffs and hospitals and helping both entities work together effectively.

The conference embraces hands-on learning opportunities and interactive small-group teaching modalities. It covers the skills and topics most needed by medical staff leaders: effective staff leadership, credentialing and privileging, assessing the needs of the organization, using CME effectively, resolving on-call issues, improved communication skills, using quality measures effectively, legal considerations, and managing disruptive or impaired colleagues. The combination of administrative, communicative, and quality-oriented skills and solutions is intended for medical staff leaders from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, and entire medical staffs are encouraged to attend. “I went to Stepping Up to Leadership with my medical staff, and I learned so much” said an attendee of the 2012 program. “All of the content was useful for the day-to-day of running a medical staff, but I found the section on privileging for physicians who never or rarely admit especially helpful. I would definitely come back.” The conference also provides a prime networking opportunity: a low student-to-faculty ratio and plenty of discussion time are built into the program. “This is a great opportunity for physicians to ask questions and resolve issues specific to their own facilities,” said IMQ Board President John Kusske, MD.

Additionally, the 2014 conference will feature keynote speaker Nancy Dickey, MD, family practitioner and the first female president of the American Medical Association. “Dr. Dickey is a dynamic speaker with real-life experience; she’s unquestionably a leader and a problem-solver,” said IMQ President Jill Silverman. “She walks the walk.” Dr. Dickey shares the podium with specially selected faculty from all corners of medical staff leadership development, including Barbara Paul, MD, Senior Vice President and CMO of Community Health Systems in Nashville, Tennessee; Greg Abrams, Esq., an expert in legal issues confronting medical staff leaders; Carol Havens, MD, President of the California Academy of Family Physicians; and others with expertise in various aspects of medical staff leadership.

The 2014 Stepping Up to Leadership program will take place March 6-8 at the Loews Coronado Bay Hotel in San Diego. For more information, visit http://www.imq.org/Education/ConferencesWorkshopsWebinars.aspx or call Leslie Iacopi at 415-882-5167.

Why Attend IMQ's "Stepping Up to Leadership" Program

The Institute for Medical Quality and the PACE Program at UC San Diego are proud to announce an unparalleled opportunity for medical staff leaders. The Stepping Up to Leadership program trains medical staff leaders in issues of communication, problem-solving, and improving outcomes for patients and staff—and it’s more accessible than ever. The Stepping Up to Leadership conference will take place on November 7-9, 2013; March 6-8, 2014; and May 8-10, 2014.

So why should your medical staff attend the Stepping Up to Leadership conference?

Stepping Up to Leadership helps physicians develop the skills and expertise to lead a successful medical staff. The current medical landscape requires leaders who work together and with administrators to make decisions in the best interest of patient safety and excellent care. With support from The Physicians Foundation, the Stepping Up to Leadership conference combines IMQ’s expertise in medical staff matters and PACE’s deep understanding of communication and assessment—and passes them on to medical staff leaders.

Stepping Up to Leadership offers unique hands-on learning opportunities, focusing on interactive small-group teaching modalities for deep understanding. The program features excellent faculty and course work on effective staff leadership, credentialing and privileging, assessing the needs of the organization, using CME effectively, resolving on-call issues, improved communication skills, using quality measures effectively, legal considerations, and managing disruptive or impaired colleagues.

Stepping Up to Leadership is accessible. For the first time, Stepping Up to Leadership is available as a national event, with events in San Antonio, Texas (November 7-9, 2013); San Diego, California (March 6-8, 2014); and Washington, DC (May 8-10, 2014).  A generous grant from the Physicians Foundation allows IMQ and PACE to offer Stepping Up to Leadership at prices as low as $595 for three days, making this an unbeatable opportunity. To register, visit http://physician-leadership.org.