Arise the systems physician.
Healthcare in Australia faces significant challenges. Variations in care, suboptimal safety and reliability, fragmentation of care and unsustainable cost increases are compounded by substantial overuse and underuse of clinical interventions. These problems arise not from intentional actions of individual clinicians, but from deficiencies in the design, operations and governance of systems of care. Physicians play an important role in optimising systems of care and, in doing so, must rely on enhanced skills in a range of domains. These include: how to evaluate and improve quality and safety of clinical processes; analyse and interpret clinical and administrative data in ways that can be used to enhance care delivery; build and lead cohesive multidisciplinary teams capable of solving operational defects and inefficient workarounds; and implement new and effective innovations in clinical service delivery. While clinical skills are essential in individual patient care, skills that improve systems of care targeting whole patient populations will become increasingly desirable and recognised as core skills.
['Scott|I|I|', 'Phelps|G|G|', 'Dalton|S|S|']
D001315:Australia D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated D006801:Humans D008486:Physician Executives D010819:Physician's Role D011340:Problem Solving D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care D015203:Reproducibility of Results
physician system of care skill