Leon Moores is a neurosurgeon and author of All Physicians Lead: Redefining Physician Leadership for Better Patient Outcomes.

Why physician leadership should be taught from day one of medical school

Physician
September 29, 2025

All physicians lead, not just those with designated leadership titles, such as Medical Director, Department Chair, or Chief Medical Officer. Leadership is foundational to the doctor’s role.

Fortunately, leadership is a learned skill and improving physicians’ leadership skills can change how well we do our key job of taking care of patients. As physicians improve individual leadership skills the entire health care system will reap the benefits: nurses, technicians, administrators, finance …

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Why physician leadership should be taught from day one of medical school

How better physician leadership can benefit our health care systems

Physician
November 9, 2024

All physicians are leaders, not just those with designated leadership titles, such as department chief, chief medical officer, or CEO. Leadership – i.e., influencing behavior to achieve a desired result – is foundational to the role of doctor.

But we aren’t routinely trained as leaders. More critically, as brand-new physicians, we aren’t explicitly told we are leaders. Typically, we think a “physician leader” is someone who has been promoted to an …

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How better physician leadership can benefit our health care systems

Why every physician is a leader

Physician
August 30, 2024

An excerpt from All Physicians Lead: Redefining Physician Leadership for Better Patient Outcomes.

I Googled the term “physician leadership” and got 183,000,000 hits in 0.45 seconds. There are seemingly endless courses and programs devoted to developing physician leadership, and there’s no shortage of attention to the topic.

Almost uniformly, however, the books and courses approach the topic from a similar angle. Physician leadership is often viewed as something that occurs when …

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Why every physician is a leader