The Journal of medical practice management : MPM
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A common misconception is that the phrase workplace diversity means meeting certain quotas in employee race or gender categories. In fact, diversity is much more than that. This article explores the unique benefits and challenges of managing a culturally diverse medical practice team and offers practice managers 25 practical strategies. ⋯ This article also explores ethnocentrism, racism, ageism, sexism, stereotyping, and other potentially divisive issues among a diverse medical practice team. It provides an assessment instrument practice managers can use to evaluate their own diversity management skills. Finally, this article defines specifically what is meant by the term diversity and explores the top 10 diversity issues in workplaces today.
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Healthcare delivery systems will change in dramatic ways in the years ahead. Anesthesiologists have to adapt and support the innovators. The Perioperative Surgical Home (PSH) is a patient-centered and physician-led multidisciplinary and team-based system of coordinated care. The goal of the PSH is to create a better patient experience and make surgical care safe, efficient, and aligned in order to promote a better medical outcome at a lower cost.
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Is your medical practice team comprised mostly or entirely of one gender? If so, how is your team's gender composition affecting its performance? This article shares 10 research findings about gender composition and team expectations and behaviors, and provides questions to help the reader apply those findings to his or her medical practice team. It offers nine strategies for building gender-inclusive teams and a six-question quiz to help practice managers determine whether their teams are gender-inclusive. It provides 10 questions to help practice managers assess and critically evaluate the gender composition of their medical practice teams. Finally, this article explores the link between a team's gender diversity and its performance.