Health systems need to attract learners to their organizations and give them sustainable career paths, says this CMO.
As healthcare executives everywhere work to overcome staffing shortages, it's important for CNOs, CMOs, and other clinical leaders to focus on providing career advancement opportunities to staff that fit career expectations.
According to Dr. Lindsay Mazotti, chief medical officer at Sutter Health, medical students are thinking differently about how they want their medical careers to unfold.
"The draw of academic medicine is still there," Mazotti said, "but there are people who are wanting to think differently about how they take care of patients and how their careers are sustainable through their lives."
These changing expectations are affecting recruitment and retention, and at Sutter Health, Mazotti sees graduate medical education (GME) as a helpful tool.
"For us, building graduate medical education programs means attracting learners to our system," Mazotti said, "[and] building a compelling reason why people want to come join us at Sutter Health."
HealthLeaders sat down with Mazotti, live from the Workforce Decision Makers Exchange in Washington D.C, to discuss how CMOs can use GME to improved their residency recruitment strategy. Tune in to hear her insights.
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G Hatfield is the CNO editor for HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Graduate medical education programs enable clinicians to have sustainable careers in both clinical positions and leadership positions, and it allows health systems to be a destination for physicians rather than a stepping stone.
CMOs should be strategic and build programs to tackle specific areas where there are physician shortages, while keeping diversity and underserved communities in mind.
Leadership development must be a key component of residency GME, as well as education about management, finance, and population health, so that physicians are equipped to one day lead hospitals and health systems.