Dr. Ron Walls
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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So for example, we look at how the OR schedule is building two weeks out.
We say, look what's happening on Wednesday and Thursday, two weeks from now.
What are we going to do about that?
And those kind of conversations lead to big changes.
Like we fundamentally changed how surgical block time is allocated because of those kind of conversations that happen in those Wednesday meetings.
It's a real challenge in academic medicine because it is something we just traditionally have not had to take on.
everything kind of just moved ahead at its own pace and each department was individual and the department chair would make the right decisions to have the faculty meet their academic and educational clinical goals and everything just sort of worked.
Well now we're in an environment where everything is being measured externally and only with very crude outcome measures like how much does it cost.
So one of the things that has to happen and some of it can happen gradually and some of it maybe more abruptly
is just changing the fundamental focus from what does it mean to be an academic department in an academic medical center today.
What does success look like?
And success now, to me, looks like being able to meet those critical parts of the mission and to do so in a way that promotes and advances faculty, that has faculty wellness and a feeling of mutual and community success among the faculty,
but also has a great patient experience and is an effective part of the organization that is really making the organization as a whole better.
And when I was a chair, I used to think a lot about my own department and how it worked and much less about the organization as a whole.
And now, of course, I'm the other way around.
Well, other than the government, I think we're the largest employer in our geography.
So coming from that background, I think the question is not how many people do you have doing something, but what are they actually doing?
And what we have tended to do is create practices that grow up.
And I don't mean necessarily patient care practices.
I mean operational practices that grow up.
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