1st Edition
The Physician Leader's Playbook Everyday Tools for Extraordinary Impact
Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 – From Rejection to Election: An Unexpected Physician Leadership Journey. Part 1 – The Physician Leader in the Health System. Chapter 2 – Physician Leaders Are Non-Negotiable. Chapter 3 – Physician First: Leader Always. Chapter 4 – Bringing Clinical Clarity to Executive Strategy. Part 2 – Working with Colleagues and Team Members. Chapter 5 – The Power Couple: Mastering Dyadic Leadership with Non-Physician Partners. Chapter 6 – Your Worst Leaders Can Be Your Best Teachers. Chapter 7 – Guiding with Grace: Mentorship as a Pillar of Purposeful Leadership in Healthcare. Chapter 8 – Conversations With Colleagues: How to Say What No One Wants To. Chapter 9 – Communication, Candor, and COVID-19. Part 3 – Leadership Basics. Chapter 10 – The Simpler the Solution Seems, the Less You Understand. Chapter 11 – Leadership in Action: Navigating Decisions and Driving Change. Chapter 12 – Engaging Teams With Impactful Meeting Leadership. Chapter 13 – The Power of Procedure: Leading Change Through Structure. Chapter 14 – Papercuts and Pebbles: Tiny Obstacles With Real Impact. Part 4 – Managing Yourself. Chapter 15 – Building on the Gaps: A Physician Leader’s Growth Path. Chapter 16 – Leadership Literacy – Going Back to School. Chapter 17 – Managing Yourself: The Inner Work of Leadership. Chapter 18 – Centering the Mission: Patients Are the North Star. Chapter 19 – Women in Leadership. Chapter 20 – Why I Quit. Final Thoughts. Reading List. Index.
Biography
Jennifer Frank is a family physician, health care leader, wife and mother who has been practicing family medicine for over 20 years. She was a physician leader in multiple organizations with multiple roles over a fifteen year period of time which included medical directorship of Army medical clinics and academic/residency clinics, as well as primary care leadership at ThedaCare, a nationally known healthcare organization committed to Lean Improvement methodology, and she served as chief medical officer before returning to full-time clinical practice. As an academic family physician, her research interests included female sexual dysfunction, conscientious objection in medical training, and group visits for prenatal care delivery. She has written a number of articles and book chapters on a variety of family medicine topics ranging from syphilis to teething. Additionally, she blogged for about a decade for Physicians Practice with her articles frequently appearing in Medical Economics. She also blogged on work-life balance for Medscape. Her passions include the use of narrative medicine for both patient and clinician and she has had a number of medical essays published in journals including Journal of the American Medical Association and Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
