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C201 - Academic Neurology Departments 2020 and Beyond: Succeeding in the Tripartite Mission

Event Time: Wednesday May 8, 2019 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Topic(s): Practice, Policy, and Ethics
Director(s): Gregory Esper MD, MBA, FAAN, Lyell Jones MD, FAAN
Description: In the changing environment of healthcare, operating margins are difficult to maintain and are frankly declining in many academic health systems. This in turn puts significant pressure on departmental academic practices, especially those in which procedural services are not the drivers of the majority of patient care. Academic neurology departments are representative of this burgeoning crisis, and improving the ability for chairs and their leaders to financially and operationally manage a department in astute and creative ways is paramount. Additionally, the academic mission is at risk, and departmental leaders must maintain faculty development through recruitment and retention programs in evolving academic practice while also preserving the research and education missions that differentiate academic neurology departments and academic health systems. Two courses have been designed to touch on these topics and are meant to be complementary: managing the academic neurology practice towards success within your evolving healthcare systems and accomplishing the academic neurology tripartite mission while also maintaining joy of work. In the second course, we will focus on how to preserve the tripartite mission through strategies in recruiting and retaining faculty and developing them with targeted and pragmatic strategies. We will also discuss opportunities for educational development of learners at all stages of their career and strategies for creating successful research programs in a challenging funding environment. Additionally, we will give attention to harnessing philanthropy to robustly supplement opportunities in research and education.
Completion Message: By the end of this course, academic neurology leaders should understand how to assess opportunities for financial practice improvement; how health system funds flow impacts opportunities for neurology programs; strategies to maximize investment through collaboration with other departments and the health system; population management opportunities for neurology; ACO and CIN models and relevance of neurology participation; best strategies for recruitment, retention, and development of faculty; considerations for adopting updated learning opportunities within the environment of increasing pressures on learner time and funding; and opportunities to expand research strategies for your department despite a challenging funding environment.
CME Credits: 2
Core Competencies: Practice-Based Learning and Improvement, Systems-Based Practice

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