Final program

Pathways to success: improving outcomes through physician engagement

April 23 — The 2009 CMA Physician Manager Institute presents ...

Prescribing quality improvement

Full-day workshop
As a physician leader, you play a key role in engaging physicians in focusing on quality and safety. This 1-day workshop will provide a foundation in quality improvement methods, including an overview of Lean and Clinical Practice Redesign (aka Advanced or Improved Access) principles, and allow you to explore the opportunities and challenges of engaging physicians in quality improvement.

April 24–25 — CSPE Conference

Highlights

• Markers of excellence: what the research tells us about great organizations — Michael Gallery, PhD, CAE
• Charting a new course for health care — Robert Ouellet, MD
• Life balance in medicine — Dr. Lee Lipsenthal, ABIHM
• The path to safe and reliable health care — Michael Leonard, MD
• Innovation in health system performance: how integration will propel Alberta’s transformation — Saum Sutaria, MD | background reading

Interactive workshops

The 2009 conference will allow participants a wider variety of workshop choices. Participants will now be able to choose 4 out of a potential 14 selected workshops. The workshop topics are chosen for their broad applicability to address the needs of the current and future physician leaders in regards to physician engagement and quality healthcare.

• Execution: The forgotten element of planning - Michael Gallery, PhD, CAE
• Engagement: the leadership challenge of the decade - Linda Tarrant, CSP, HOF
• Physician leadership and evidence-informed change: EXTRA Interventions - panel
• Negotiating for yourself — achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward - Cathy Cordell and Mark Schonfeld
• Careers in medical leadership for women: attracting and supporting talent - Gillian Kernaghan, MD
• Engaging physicians and promoting adoption of electronic health information systems - Jim MacLean, MD
• Frustrated with processes that waste limited time and resources? — Sandy Clark, Suzanne Raymond
• The emotionally intelligent approach to the physician - Dr. Lee Lipsenthal, ABIHM
• Distributed medical education: engaging the teachers - Galt Wilson, MD, MSc FCFP
• Modernize professionalism by recreating the compact - Jack Silversin, DMD, DrPH,
• Better performance: the road to success lies in self-awareness - Geoff Rowlands
• Whose side are you on? The schizoid realities of physicians in administrative positions - Becky Temple, MD, and Alexandra Tcheremenska-Greenhill, MD
• Physicians’ hearts & minds: strategies for successful engagement of physicians within academic health sciences centres - Raj Bhatla, MD, James P. O’Brien, MD, Keith Rose, MD, Owen Heisler, MD