Learning by Doing: Developing Physician Leaders through Action.

PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP IS A KEY DRIVER toward a sustainable value-based health care delivery system. After all, physicians control 80 percent of health care dollars, 90 percent of clinical care orders, and play a key role in patients’ perception of care and team member participation. Accelerating the pace of physician leadership development is best done through a blended learning approach. This approach recognizes that development begins with realization of a need and motivation to do something about it, and that a combination of learning modalities “in concert” provides powerful learning and leadership development. Let’s explore a case study of a best-in-class physician leadership development program grounded in the 70/20/10 rule, a model based on research by Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger for the Center for Creative Leadership. The 70/20/10 rule proposes the following blend of learning approaches: