Leadership with Dr. Koh  Learning how to lead as a physician out of medical school can be difficult. Medical schools often fail to properly train their graduates in leadership. This leads to graduates with little to no confidence as a leader or an over-inflated sense of leadership ability that can lead to difficult team dynamics. Dr. Koh dives into the intricacies of team management and leadership as a medical professional and how she struggled in her early career to foster a healthy work environment. Through the adoption of a growth mindset and pushing past her comfort zone, Dr. K ..read more

Sometimes, we can't always have a situation where both parties at the negotiation table win.  Sometimes, someone is going to have to give up and wait. Maybe, it's not permanent and maybe it is.  We've seen that with the pandemic, especially in the beginning.  Doctors and nurses were in a panic when there was a lack of safety gear to protect themselves from both potential and documented COVID patients during a time of uncertainty and fear.  There were a lot of angry healthcare workers, and many felt the leadership did not care.  There were many descriptive, heated socia ..read more

In this episode of the The Becker's Healthcare Podcast, Dr. Elsie Koh, Chief Medical Officer at American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention and Founder of LEAD Physician and Kurt Scott, Founder & CEO at the Physician Leadership Career Network discuss traits of great physician leaders, how to break into leadership, and more ..read more

Getting to the top 3 finalists (Hint: It takes a lot of work) By Kurt Scott & Elsie Koh, MD My last article was from the organization’s perspective; Using the “Vision Statement” to help make your final evaluation and decision. This time let’s look at it from the candidate’s point of view. Seriously, I’ve had candidates show up to the interview: missing their top front teeth wearing a toupee, sitting on their head like a hat (you could see under it) in shorts, flip flops and a Hawaiian shirt And my personal favorite, chest hair flowing out over their dress shirt like a dickie… yup   ..read more