Bryant, University Medicine create medical management program

MARKING THE BEGINNING of a new joint venture to educate medical professionals in business management are, from left, Dr. Louis B. Rice, University Medicine president and CEO, Ronald K. Machtley, Bryant University president, Dr. Angela Caliendo, University Medicine vice president, director of general internal medicine, and Glenn Sulmasy, Bryant University provost. / COURTESY NEWBERRY PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING
MARKING THE BEGINNING of a new joint venture to educate medical professionals in business management are, from left, Dr. Louis B. Rice, University Medicine president and CEO, Ronald K. Machtley, Bryant University president, Dr. Angela Caliendo, University Medicine vice president, director of general internal medicine, and Glenn Sulmasy, Bryant University provost. / COURTESY NEWBERRY PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING

SMITHFIELD – As the health care field grows increasingly complex, doctors are expected to assume leadership roles in business and management while continuing their expertise in science and medicine. ?To that end, University Medicine, Rhode Island’s largest nonprofit medical group practice, recently launched the Leadership Academy for its doctors and health care administrators in collaboration with Bryant University’s Executive Development Center. ??

Ronald K. Machtley, president of Bryant University, and Glenn M. Sulmasy, provost and chief academic officer of Bryant, welcomed the inaugural class of 12 UM physicians and three UM administrators at a Dec. 22 event on the university’s campus.

“University Medicine’s Leadership Academy program is designed around issues that doctors face every day with management and in leading collaborative teams,” said Machtley. “This is an exciting opportunity to share and learn together.”

The Leadership Academy is something that Dr. Angela M. Caliendo, vice president and director of general internal medicine for UM, and her UM colleagues have envisioned for more than a year.

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“It takes a completely different set of skills to be a scientist than a business leader, and this type of training makes a difference,” said Caliendo. “Leadership matters. This program is important now because health care is undergoing such tremendous change. We need physicians more than ever who can lead through chaotic times.” ??

With more than 200 physicians and more than 20 patient care locations across the state of Rhode Island, UM, which was established in 2000, is affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and employs most of the full-time faculty of Brown’s Department of Medicine.

While most physicians and other medical professionals typically do not enroll in business leadership courses, said Dr. Louis B. Rice, UM’s president and CEO, such training allows them to be more productive in their respective professional capacities. His hope is that “participants will bring the skills they develop in this program back to their individual settings and use them to make things better. As Robyn Benincasa, the world champion adventure racer, said: ‘You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are’.”??

Mari Anne Snow, a professional development consultant and instructor with Bryant’s Executive Development Center, developed the 15-week certificate program. Participants will be evaluated according to a combination of individual and team assignments, class discussions and participation, and a final capstone project, which will be presented to the UM board of directors. Activities are structured to enable the participants to apply their experiential learning by interacting at work with bosses, colleagues and other specialists. ?

This kind of experiential learning approach, said Snow, “allows for application in the ‘real world’ work environment for the best ROI possible, providing a workable, executable framework for [doctors and administrators to progress] in their careers as dynamic health care leaders.”

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