Business of Medicine Leadership Program

The Department of Medicine’s Business of Medicine Leadership Program (BMLP) is designed to provide clinical faculty and emerging leaders with a professional development opportunity that increases business acumen, leadership skills and expertise.

Academic physician leaders will develop and secure skills that match system and departmental alignment needs:

• Develop a toolkit of skills to enhance business acumen and leadership.
• Leverage knowledge in order to position ideas more persuasively, increase team productivity and lead others more effectively.
• Strengthen overall business acumen and gain a better understanding of financial acumen, including the key frameworks, models and levers that drive organizational success.
• Increase innovation capability via the development of an “intrapreneur” mindset, system and roadmap.
• Incorporate Lean in the academic and practice arena.
• Reflect on what it means to lead with wellness and equity in mind.
• Strategic thinking about equity and inclusion.

TIME COMMITMENT AND SUPPORT

The program will meet one Friday morning per month (August, September, October, November and December) for 3.5-4 hours for highly interactive in-depth faculty-led sessions that allow for application and integration of the tools and knowledge. Prior to each in-residence session, participants will engage in asynchronous online, faculty-facilitated sessions, utilizing videos, readings, assignments and discussion boards with peers and faculty to learn fundamentals and implement team action learning projects to apply concepts.

FAPDD will pay 50% of the program costs and departments will be expected to cover the other 50% of the program costs (through CME or other departmental funds). The cost to departments will depend on cohort size, but will not exceed $1,000.

Curriculum

Financial Acumen, Intrapreneurship and Innovation, Work-Life and Lean training.

For more information contact Dr. Sylk Sotto, Vice-chair for Faculty Affairs, Development, and Diversity, Department of Medicne, at ssotto@iu.edu.

Program sessions will be held on Fridays during the following month:

• August 13, 2021
• September 10, 2021
• October 8, 2021
• November 12, 2021
• December 3, 2021

Nomination process and steps

• Step 1 –  A one-page document (max. 500 words) describing your career goals as it relates to this curriculum.
• Step 2 – (Department of Medicine Applicants only) Contact your Division or Section Chief. Their approval and a short nomination is required. Please e-mail to Dr. Sylk Sotto at ssotto@iu.edu.

Deadline for nominations: April 15th

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