Medical management and leadership: a time of transition?

Helen Dickinson; Grant Phelps; Erwin Loh; Marie Bismark

doi:10.1111/imj.13479

Medical management and leadership: a time of transition?

Intern Med J. 2017 Jul;47(7):818-820. doi: 10.1111/imj.13479.

Authors

Helen Dickinson¹, Grant Phelps², Erwin Loh³, Marie Bismark⁴

Affiliations

¹ Public Service Research Group, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Ballarat Health Services, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
³ Department of Medical Administration, Monash Health, Victoria, Australia.
⁴ School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

PMID: 28677315
DOI: 10.1111/imj.13479

Abstract

Perspectives on medical management and leadership are in a time of transition, but there is much we still need to understand better. This paper explores some of the tensions and dilemmas inherent in understandings of medical management and leadership.

Keywords: clinicians; leadership; management.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Australia / epidemiology
Humans
Leadership*
Physician Executives / education
Physician Executives / trends*
Practice Management, Medical / trends*