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A full range of customized services applied to your search

Finding the right physician leader is not a generic headhunting assignment.

Given the demands on today’s health care organizations, selecting, hiring, incorporating, and retaining the right physician leader requires identifying the blend of clinical credibility, managerial skill, and interpersonal style that will enable a prospective physician leader to work effectively within your unique organizational setting to achieve the results you require.

Because health care organizations are experiencing unprecedented internal and external pressures and change, and the solutions they require are complex, traditional “search” services must be supplemented by organizational consulting capability. In our experience, physician leaders are not simply “dropped into” organizations. Incorporating physician leadership can be challenging and may require reconfiguration of existing structures and/or reporting relationships. In addition, even talented and qualified physician candidates may require skills development in order to deliver maximal results. This is especially true for those who are transitioning from clinical settings or clinical program management positions into executive management roles.

For these reasons, ZDmd search teams include a physician who has strong health care management consulting experience. This assures you that ZDmd will not only be attentive to the “technical candidate requirements” but that we will simultaneously advise you on the broader factors that are ultimately critical to success, such as:

  • Alignment between the physician leadership position and the organization’s strategy
  • Position definition and structure in relation to your organizational requirements and goals
  • Organizational readiness for the physician leadership role you wish to fill
  • Alignment of the physician leadership position with existing authority, accountability, incentives, and rewards
  • Relationships between the physician leader’s position and the formal medical staff governance structure
  • Interface between the physician leader and members of the voluntary, employed, and/or contracted medical staffs
  • Performance metrics, incentives, and compensation for physician leaders
  • Skill and experience gaps that would benefit from coaching or mentoring an otherwise well-qualified and desirable candidate

In addition to recruiting physician leaders, ZDmd and its strategic partners offer an expanded set of services to enhance physician leadership effectiveness, including:

  • “Onboarding” coaching to assist the selected candidate transition to his/her new role (ZDmd provides initial, limited onboarding coaching to all physician leaders as part of its standard search offering)
  • Ongoing executive leadership coaching to assist new or established leaders in building skills, developing and executing strategy, and/or correcting deficiencies
  • Leadership team development for physician leaders and, as appropriate, their administrative partners
  • Service line leadership assessment and coaching

We invite you to contact us to discuss your specific challenges.