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Workforce Workout: a fitness plan for healthcare in America
Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization June, 2010
Workforce Workout: a fitness plan for healthcare in America
Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization June, 2010
Angela Broderick Bedell, MA, CAE
Why a workout?
30,000 hours
Components of a fitness plan
Strength
Endurance
Flexibility
Core
The reality factors of success
The “exercises”
Strength
Strength
Strength in numbers
What are the numbers
...really?
Bob Phillips, MD Director, Robert Graham Center
Policy Studies in Family Medicine & Primary Care
American Academy of Family Physicians
Endurance
Sufficient FP
Workforce:
Sufficient
Recruitment Appropriate
Training
Continued
Retention
A practical approach to workforce:
The Three-Legged Stool
Slide credit: Ashley Devilbis Bieck, MPA & Amy McGaha, MD
“As a nation, we simply need to do a better job at promoting careers in healthcare for our
rural youth.”
Alan Morgan
CEO, NRHA
“Flush, Kansas is never going to be an attractive destination to a kid from
New York City.”
Flush, KS
“Flush, Kansas is never going to be an attractive destination to a kid from New
York City.”
High test scores now indicate…
…high test scores later.
Pipeline activities
STFM.org
STFM pipeline posters
Flexibility
Not all communities are the same,
approaches must be flexible
“I have seen many elegantly designed "urban" interventions fail
miserably, in part, because the investigators did not really
understand the local culture of the indigenous people.”
Chris Gibbons associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Who does know the needs of a community?
Who does know what healthcare workforce is necessary?
Core Strength
Healthcare providers are the core of
healthcare
How do we strengthen this “core?”
Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy
Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy
Michael Pollan:
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
“Get medical care,
not too much,
mostly primary care.”
Image credit: Jennifer Sauer
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Exercises
What, specifically, do we need to do?
Personal branding for personal providers
Better packaging of the opportunity
Purpose, rewards Daniel Pink
“Calling” Stefan Sagmeister
Packaging of the opportunity
New generation = new options
Packaging of the opportunity
New generation – new options
Understanding pay & debt
More flexibility in work options
“Goodbye to the office”
Support for supporters
Reality Factors
(just like working out!)
To make it a reality: aggressive plan
Dec 2005
Oct 2006
To make it a reality: a good coach
To make it a reality: motivation
To make it a reality: motivation
To make it a reality: motivation
Reality: it’ll be more expensive than you think
Reality: greatest need is leadership
Leadership
Motivators
Know and care – community
Thank you NAO and AHECs – for shaping up
our healthcare workforce and
healthcare in our communities.