With many years of experience in physician leadership training, the Advisory Board continually receives accolades on the quality of our content, faculty, and interactive presentation style. Below, we’ve listed just a few of the comments received from those involved with the Advisory Board Academies.

 

“If every doc that I’ve got on my MEC had this stuff to start with, I’d be further ahead than I am now that’s for darn sure.”

-CMO
Major Mid-Atlantic Health System

“They have been able to present these things [i.e., leadership essentials] in a conceptual and practical framework.  It all seems to resonate with the docs. It’s tough with adult learners.  You need a different set of techniques to get them engaged, need more validation and with these speakers it was spot on. We have been delighted with the results.”

-SVPMA
300-bed hospital in the Midwest

“We were trying get into the business mode with our physicians and needed a package to do that. It’s worked really well, this has been well received with the docs and it’s helped with our merger, too. It has given us a way to rotate our docs through [leadership opportunities] and give opportunity to give leadership training that we couldn’t do on our own.”

-SVP/CMO
400-bed hospital, part of a large regional health system in the Midwest

“We wanted to equip physician leaders with skills…to facilitate communication between executives and physicians. This has been very effective. Our PRC [physician satisfaction] survey scores are up in the last two years…I think it’s because of the Physician Leadership Academy.”

-VPMA
400-bed hospital, part of a large IDS in the West

“We have been able to expose the curriculum widely and create peer relationships where none existed before. Most important, putting teaching in the context of how we do business has brought the concepts and our challenges to life for participants.”

-VPMA
500-bed hospital, part of a large regional health system in the Midwest

“The content has been excellent. I see a lot of value out of the part where they do group interaction, role playing and getting the physicians to talk. It engaged them a lot.”

-CMO
450-bed hospital in the South

“Our goal is to be able to have [our physician leaders] sit in a board meeting, finance committee meeting, strategic planning meeting and have them knowledgeable enough to intelligently participate in conversation. Whether it’s [speaking to] a board member or other member of their staff, for the physicians to be well balanced and a thoughtful person to help shape our future. These people [i.e., our Academy participants] are prepared to take on that kind of role in our institution.”

-CMO
350-bed hospital in the Southwest

“In the past, we used different groups to meet those needs and Academies was recommended to us. We have very good relationship with the Advisory Board, are very pleased with the speakers, topics and presentations. I am especially glad that you use interactive use of scenarios, case studies. The physicians really attach to that style.”

-Director of Physician Education
Eight-hospital system in the East

“Our supervisors are mainly clinicians who do double duty as physicians and nurse practitioners and also supervise the staff. They are phenomenal at their careers, but as supervisors, they stink. We are trying to give them a sense that this is just as important as their other functions. Our main goal is to get them to a point of being independent, accountable for their actions. They love the sessions, and these are people who fight tooth and nail about any training. “

-Training Instructor
100-bed hospital, part of a large regional IDS in the West