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Healthcare Leadership and Advocacy Track

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Optimizing Healthcare Workforce Management for High-Value Care

Welcome to the Healthcare Leadership and Advocacy Track!

Mission

The Health Care Leadership and Advocacy Track aims to foster leadership skills necessary in hospital and clinic-based practices and promote resident engagement in healthcare advocacy.

Goals

The track emphasizes: core elements of leadership training, high value care models, steps to engaging and leading advocacy levels and community partner engagement. A final capstone project culminating in advocacy work in Sacramento, CA or Washington DC will be used to synthesize tools learned in the track. Participants will be PGY 2 or PGY 3 level trainees. While we do our best to accommodate all interested residents, the total number accepted will depend on capacity.

Track Components

  • Monthly didactics- workshops or flipped classroom teaching sessions with educators from Olive View, USC, NYU and UCLA
  • 12-month track
  • 1-week advocacy/leadership elective per year with shadowing experiences within the hospital C suite or the LA Department of Health Services
  • Capstone advocacy work that will be presented in Sacramento or Washington DC 
  • Meetings with community partners to learn about community needs

Curriculum Overview

  • Monthly seminars: On various topics including: Intro to US Healthcare, Case Studies in Leadership Models, Organizational Behavior, Effectively Maximizing a Healthcare Leadership team, Wellness based Leadership, Intro to Healthcare Disparities, From Idea to Bill.
  • Community Engagement– Engage with healthcare partners to bridge healthcare needs in Sylmar. Community partners include Medical Legal partnership, NLSLA, and others.
  • Shadowing experiences: Attend hospital leadership meetings, QI meetings, meet with Departmental and C-suite leadership to learn the day-to-day workings of the hospital and its clinics.
  • Advocacy: On local, state, and national levels.

 

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