Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
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The gimmick of the day is to make -preneur the suffix of the year. Solopreneurs. Doctorpreneurs. Digipreneurs. Trumpreneurs. It should come as no surprise then, that leaderpreneur has appeared in your latest Google search. What is a leaderpreneur, anyway, and…
The gimmick of the day is to make -preneur the suffix of the year. Solopreneurs. Doctorpreneurs. Digipreneurs. Trumpreneurs. It should come as no surprise then, that leaderpreneur has appeared in your latest Google search. What is a leaderpreneur, anyway, and why should anyone care? Recognizing that there are as many definitions of leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation as there are practitioners of those arts, here is my take:
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit …
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The difference between a leader, a manager, and an innovator
Physician voices
I'm often asked about how to pursue a physician entrepreneurial career pathway. Like Peter Medawar opined in his "Advice to a young scientist", allow me to offer some advice: You will not learn about innovation or entrepreneurship in medical school…
I’m often asked about how to pursue a physician entrepreneurial career pathway. Like Peter Medawar opined in his “Advice to a young scientist”, allow me to offer some advice:
You will not learn about innovation or entrepreneurship in medical school or residency. Medical education is designed to teach students clinical care and research methods. If you have an entrepreneurial interest, you will have to pursue it using alternative …
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How to balance clinical duties with building a startup
Physician voices
The author of a recent article claimed that "we all lose" when an experienced physician prematurely leaves clinical medicine. Of course, it is inevitable that a clinical career will end, but whether patients and society suffer depends on what that…
The author of a recent article claimed that “we all lose” when an experienced physician prematurely leaves clinical medicine. Of course, it is inevitable that a clinical career will end, but whether patients and society suffer depends on what that retiring doctor does next. Increasingly, it seems, they pursue other ways to help patients and add value to the system by pursuing non-clinical careers. That’s a good thing, because:
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Why more doctors are leaving clinical practice and how it helps health care
Medical education
When I was a medical student, some enterprising classmate started a note taking service so we wouldn't have to take notes on our own. He set up a tape recorder and transcribed the notes for distribution the next day. One…
When I was a medical student, some enterprising classmate started a note taking service so we wouldn’t have to take notes on our own. He set up a tape recorder and transcribed the notes for distribution the next day. One day, our professor showed up with a tape recorder, set it up on the table in front of the lecture hall, and turned it on. The result was an electronic …
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Why medical schools must ditch lectures and embrace active learning
Physician voices
Every time I see a GlideScope, I can’t help but lament, “why didn’t I think of that?” To me, the GlideScope exemplifies how physicians can apply their practical knowledge of medicine to create technology that improves patient outcomes. I had…
Every time I see a GlideScope, I can’t help but lament, “why didn’t I think of that?” To me, the GlideScope exemplifies how physicians can apply their practical knowledge of medicine to create technology that improves patient outcomes.
I had a front-row seat to physician-designed technology prior to my residency, when I worked at an early-stage venture capital fund advising on health care investments. We invested in a number of physician-founded …
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Initial steps for physician entrepreneurs
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