Dear colleagues and associates:
You are cordially invited to the California Health Care Leadership Academy, the state’s premier opportunity for physicians and other health care leaders to learn about leading-edge trends and developments in California’s rapidly changing health care environment.
Continuing the Academy’s standard of programming excellence, the 11th Annual Leadership Academy looks from the past to the future to assess both broad trends and specific key developments affecting the practice of medicine in California and beyond. The realities of the present will also be addressed with a series of practical and powerful workshops designed to help meet today’s medical practice challenges.
Whether practicing solo, in a small group or a large group, you are sure to benefit from the valuable information and tools this year’s Leadership Academy offers. Please join us this spring for an outstanding educational experience!
Sincerely,
Richard S. Frankenstein, MD
President, California Medical Association
Who should attend:
- Physicians and nurses in private, group or academic practice and in administrative and management positions
- Hospital chiefs of staff, MEC members, senior administrators and board members
- Medical group and health plan administrators and board members
- Medical practice administrators and managers
- Medical and specialty society officers, executives and committee members
- Private- and public-sector health policy analysts, consultants and program administrators
- Health law attorneys
- Medical students and residents
- Consumer/patient advocates
Why you should attend:
- Learn about and be prepared for trends affecting your practice and your economic future – in a program designed by and for physicians
- Learn management techniques to minimize financial risks and boost the bottom line of your practice
- Aquire valuable skills to excel as a medical group, medical staff or medical society leader
- Earn 19 hours of Category 1 CME
- Network with your colleagues
What you will learn:
At the conclusion of this program, you should be able to
- Describe the major trends affecting the transformation of the American Health System
- Articulate key issues in the assessment of physician quality and efficiency by health care payers and consumers
- Understand the factors affecting reform of the Medicare physician payment system
- Articulate the political obstacles to health system reform in California
- Describe new Joint Commission medical staff bylaws standards and their potential impact on the future of the traditional hospital medical staff
- Understand the challenges and opportunities of providing quality health care to patients facing cultural and linguistic barriers
- Articulate the market forces driving the growth of retail clinics and expansion of allied practitioners' scopes of practice
- Describe factors contributing to the erosion of medical professionalism in an increasingly commercialized health care marketplace
The California Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The California Medical Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.
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