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Thank you for the ever-timely call to leadership.
Family Medicine has a long history of leveraging the lived experience of family doctors into effective influence, leadership, and disruptive innovation in academic institutions and healthcare systems.[1] Many of the early pioneers of Family Medicine in the US and Canada moved from small-town practices to become department chairs, residency program directors, medical school deans, and executives in large healthcare systems.
• How can we make these positions more attractive to our colleagues in community practices and health centers?
• How can we prepare and support them to be successful in today’s challenging and changing environments?
• How can we partner with them to develop and drive the missions of patient care, scholarship, teaching, and learning?
1. Phillips WR, Herbert CP. What makes family doctors the leaders we need in health care? Can Fam Physician. 2022 Nov;68(11):801-802. doi: 10.46747/cfp.6811801. https://www.cfp.ca/content/68/11/801