Physician Leadership Program
ACCMA Physician Leadership Program, 2020-2021
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Register
- Non-member - $1,900
- ACCMA Member - $1,400
- MIEC Policyholders - $1,900
- NSMS Member - $1,400
As physicians in today’s dynamic health care environment, we need to be effective leaders in order to ensure organizational and individual success, and we need tangible leadership skills that build on our clinical knowledge and experience. Communicating a vision, motivating colleagues, leading teams, negotiating with payers, collaborating across silos – these skills enable physicians to build organizations, compete for resources, lead change, influence policy and overcome challenges.
The Physician Leadership Program, from the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association (ACCMA), is an innovative program developed in 2016 by physician leaders in collaboration with faculty from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Haas School of Business. It addresses the fact that physicians are, and should be, placed in roles with organizational responsibility, but have limited formal opportunities to learn the concepts, skills, and tools of leadership. It meets the educational need for a structured course that builds upon the deep knowledge that clinicians already have of complex systems such as the human body, families, and communities, as well as their experience of exerting influence through clinical encounters and clinical team leadership
Each virtual session provides an intense, experiential learning experience led by nationally recognized faculty using a dynamic interactive online format. Supplemental materials, including literature, video links, short didactic talks developed by and for clinicians, and simple preparatory exercises, will be available online as preparation for the live portion of each course sessions and for those wishing to dig more deeply into the principles and practice of leadership. The program is sequenced and scheduled to accommodate busy physicians. Participants will gain practical skills and insights directly applicable to their practice opportunities and challenges.
Participants can earn a certificate of completion and up to 24 hours of category 1 CME credit.
8 Virtual, Tuesday Evening Sessions:
October 6, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 1: Principles of Leadership and leading change
October 20, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 2: Understanding ourselves and others through personality preference types
November 10, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 3: Moving toward an anti-racist workplace
November 17, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 4: Effective Communication
December 1, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 5: Negotiation
December 15, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 6: Inspiring motivating and mobilizing others
January 5, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 7: Managing conflict: Difficult conversations
January
19, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM; Session 8:
Planning and succeeding at project
Fees:
Medical Society Member: $1400.00
Non Member: $1900.00
Discounts:
Group Discount:
10% off for groups of 3-4 from the same organization
15% off for groups of 5 or more from the same organization
Early Registration Discount:
$100 off when you register before September 15th
Combined discounts cannot be offered
Contact Jennifer Mullins, ACCMA Education and Event Association for questions or group registration at 510-654-5383 x6305 or by email at jmullins@accma.org
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Contains 14 Component(s), Includes Credits
This first session will be an engaging introduction to key concepts, tools, and skills used by effective leaders. Common models of leadership, its importance to organizations, ways that clinical skills can inform leadership, and the interdependency of leadership and followership will be presented.
Why do we need leadership, and why should clinicians lead? This first session will be an engaging introduction to key concepts, tools, and skills used by effective leaders. Common models of leadership, its importance to organizations, ways that clinical skills can inform leadership, and the interdependency of leadership and followership will be presented.
Learning Objectives
- Draw on a broader understanding of leadership to select the optimal approaches to organizational challenges.
- Recognize patterns of leadership and fellowship.
- Ability to apply leadership skills to organizational situations.
Read Pierce, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Pierce is Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School where he also serves as Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Wellbeing in the Department of Medicine. Previously he founded the Hospital Medicine Section at the San Francisco VA Medical Center; the University of Colorado’s Hospital Medicine Division. He has worked locally and nationally with many organizations to improve healthcare quality and safety.
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Contains 11 Component(s), Includes Credits
We will focus on how self-understanding makes us more effective leaders. The use of tools, such as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator®, to discover our style preferences and those of others will be demonstrated, as well as strategies for leading and collaborating based on those preferences.
October 20, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
We will focus on how self-understanding makes us more effective leaders. The use of tools, such as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator®, to discover our style preferences and those of others will be demonstrated, as well as strategies for leading and collaborating based on those preferences.
Learning Objective
- Describe and use common classification systems for understanding their own personality preferences and those of others.
- Ability to broaden their own range of preferences.
- Utilize a range of styles to increase leadership effectiveness.
Patrick Kerwin, MBA
Guest Speaker
Principal of Kerwin & Associates in San Diego, California, specializing in the development of leaders, teams, and organizations. He is one of 12 master practitioners of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® in the US and Canada, and has over 25 years of experience working with health care, corporate, education, and non-profi t organizations to put the MBTI® instrument into practice for leadership development, team-building, communication enhancement, change management, stress management, and individual development.
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Contains 6 Component(s)
While systemic racism has been part of American life for over 400 years, recent events have broadened awareness and heightened the urgency for change. More than an absence of discrimination, active anti-racism work is being demanded of us all. In this session we will be addressing what an anti-racist workplace can look like and the changes needed to achieve this, as well as what each of us can do, from our unique positions, to support and lead the change.
November 10, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
While systemic racism has been part of American life for over 400 years, recent events have broadened awareness and heightened the urgency for change. More than an absence of discrimination, active anti-racism work is being demanded of us all. In this session we will be addressing what an anti-racist workplace can look like and the changes needed to achieve this, as well as what each of us can do, from our unique positions, to support and lead the change.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will understand the essential aspects of anti-racism work, why it is necessary, and ways to promote it in the workplace.
Michelle Guy, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Michelle Guy joined the UCSF faculty Division of General Internal Medicine as a Clinician Educator after completing her Chief Residency. Dr. Guy also serves as Director of Diversity for Graduate Medical Education. She works with the Office of Graduate Medical Education, trainees, faculty and staff to increase diversity and inclusion for all training programs at UCSF. As a Dean’s Diversity Leader for Differences Matter, she leads the group on faculty diversity and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion training that has trained over 1600 UCSF faculty and staff.
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Contains 6 Component(s)
How do you craft a compelling shared vision, articulate it persuasively, and engage people to join you in realizing it? Beginning with active listening, we will examine the power of stories and how we tell, hear, elicit, validate, and suppress them. The power of reframing and vulnerabilities to persuasion will be discussed, as well as how to use narrative to create effective presentations and meetings.
November 17, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
How do you craft a compelling shared vision, articulate it persuasively, and engage people to join you in realizing it? Beginning with active listening, we will examine the power of stories and how we tell, hear, elicit, validate, and suppress them. The power of reframing and vulnerabilities to persuasion will be discussed, as well as how to use narrative to create effective presentations and meetings.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize legitimate and illegitimate acts of persuasion.
- Understanding the psychology of persuasion, narratives and alignment.
- Utilize narratives to motivate and align and improve presentation and meeting skills.
Jennifer Caleshu
Guest Speaker
A lecturer, facilitator, and certified executive coach for programs in leadership, communications, design thinking, and innovation. She is a member of the professional faculty at UC’s Haas School of Business, where she lectures on Leadership Communications, Fundamentals of Design Thinking, and Building Trust-Based Relationships. She has also facilitated both leadership and innovation programs through UC Berkeley Executive Education. She serves as Vice President of Marketing and Operations in her faculty member position for the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute (BECI).
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Contains 6 Component(s)
In this session we will address the problem of collaborating in the context of conflicting aims within and across teams, departments, and institutions. We will discuss the principles of negotiation and practice them in simulated negotiation exercises.
December 1, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
In this session we will address the problem of collaborating in the context of conflicting aims within and across teams, departments, and institutions. We will discuss the principles of negotiation and practice them in simulated negotiation exercises.
Learning Objectives
- Build and lead teams more effectively
- Negotiate with more effectiveness using the methods of principled negotiation.
- Understand the value and need of diversity and how to manage it.
Kimberly MacPherson, MPH, MBA
Guest Speaker
The Executive Director of Health Management at the Haas School of Business and the Faculty Program Director for Health Policy & Management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She directs the MBA/MPH program, the two-year MPH in HPM program, a one-year MPH for clinicians and the MPP/MPH offered with the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is also the Co-Director for the Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) a research and education center that studies the need to balance affordability and innovation. At BCHT, Kim focuses on health system strategy, digital health, and on coverage and adoption of biotech and medical devices.
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Contains 7 Component(s)
How can physicians tap into the energy of deeply held values to motivate and to build a trusting environment? Having tools for balancing competing values and aims in complex situations can enlist the team’s best efforts toward shared organizational purpose. This session will also provide an introduction to the structure and functions (and dysfunctions) of teams.
December 15, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
How can physicians tap into the energy of deeply held values to motivate and to build a trusting environment? Having tools for balancing competing values and aims in complex situations can enlist the team’s best efforts toward shared organizational purpose. This session will also provide an introduction to the structure and functions (and dysfunctions) of teams.
Learning Objectives
- Ability to use the language and concepts of values in team-building, organizational motivation and goal setting.
- Eliciting and connecting with the values held by others.
- Utilizing values to engage people
Arpana Vidyarthi, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Vidyarthi has deep expertise in change management, leadership development, culture and system transformations, and education attained through two decades as an Academic Hospitalist and Leadership Facilitator in San Francisco, CA and Singapore.
Dr. Vidyarthi has led system improvement and organizational restructuring in multiple healthcare settings. While at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), she held QI director level roles at division, hospital, and university-wide levels. Nationally, she served as an Implementation Mentor in the Society of Hospital Medicine’s BOOST program to improve the discharge process. In Singapore, as the Division Chief of Advanced Internal Medicine, she led teams to implement and evaluate new care models at the National University Hospital. Most recently, she is working with a US national private practice group to create structures that align physicians and the organization for strategic growth.
Recognizing the importance of “people change” in transformational efforts, Dr. Vidyarthi developed expertise in executive coaching, psychology, and culture change and taught these skills globally building capacity in individuals and teams. Specifically, programs for physicians and nurses across California (the Institute for Physician Leadership) hospitalists nationally (the IPC-UCSF Fellowship for Hospitalist Leaders), medical trainees across Singapore (the Ministry of Health Chief Residency Development Program) and public health leaders across Asia-Pacific (Initiative to Improve Health in Asia) She currently creates and teaches customized programs addressing leadership, change management, career transitions, resilience, and culture change.
Dr. Vidyarthi has extensive experience in clinical teaching and Graduate Medical Education. At UCSF, she was the Director of GME Quality and Safety Programs and led the Health Systems and Leadership Residency Track. Dr. Vidyarthi is a passionate teacher and mentor earning multiple accolades for her skills and commitment to learners.
Dr. Vidyarthi received her undergraduate degree from Macalester College (Ethnic Relations) and her medical degree from the University of Minnesota. She completed Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, and a Fellowship in Hospital Medicine and Clinical Research at UCSF. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, with a Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. She holds a master’s degree in Individual and Organizational Psychology (Executive Masters in Change) from INSEAD. She is an alumnus of the Harvard Macy Program for Leaders in Healthcare Education, the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program, and the Global Health Leadership Forum. She has published more than 50 peer-review articles in the arenas of quality improvement, education, and global health.
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Contains 5 Component(s)
Physicians already know how to manage patient caseload in their clinical work. This session is an introduction to the formal project management framework and its connections with clinical management. Physicians can use their clinical skills coupled with project management knowledge to build credibility with administrators and managers and to foster innovation in constrained settings.
January 5, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Physicians already know how to manage patient caseload in their clinical work. This session is an introduction to the formal project management framework and its connections with clinical management. Physicians can use their clinical skills coupled with project management knowledge to build credibility with administrators and managers and to foster innovation in constrained settings.
Learning Objectives
- Plan, execute, measure and report on projects using language and concepts shared by management and administrative leadership
- Utilize project management framework and its use in organizations and parallels to clinical care
- Utilize project management skills to establish credibility with and collaborate effectively with managers and administrators.
Aprana Vidyarthi, MD
Guest Speaker
Dr. Vidyarthi has two decades of experience as a leader in Academic Medicine in the United States and Singapore. She is currently the Head (Chief) of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at NUH in Singapore. In this role, she integrates her skills in leadership, education, developing others, system change, and clinical medicine to re-envision the division and the profession of Academic General Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine across Singapore.
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Contains 4 Component(s)
Team collaboration is essential to maintaining a healthy workplace and delivering high-quality patient care. How can we navigate the dynamics of managing up, across, and down? How do we build productive relationships with toxic colleagues and bosses? We will examine how the structure and functions (and dysfunctions) of teams affect the outcomes we can accomplish.
January 19, 2020; 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Team collaboration is essential to maintaining a healthy workplace and delivering high-quality patient care. How can we navigate the dynamics of managing up, across, and down? How do we build productive relationships with toxic colleagues and bosses? We will examine how the structure and functions (and dysfunctions) of teams affect the outcomes we can accomplish.
Learning Objectives
- Collaborate more effectively with HR colleagues.
- Recognize and deal with toxic behavior.
- Manage reports more effectively. Be more effective followers.
- Take better advantage of supervisors.
Hilary Worthen, MD
Course Director
Dr. Worthen is an internist who has served in many leadership roles, including CMIO, at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a public academic health care system affiliated with Harvard and Tufts medical schools. He taught leadership for physicians through the UCSF’s Healthforce Center for nine years, and is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Worthen has served as course director for the first two cohorts of the Physician Leadership Program on UC Berkeley’s campus.
