HR Pulse Magazine    Conclusions: “The 360-degree assessment process can address complex physician issues and enable each physician to receive feedback on their hard-to-measure professionalism and interpersonal communication skills, often associated with patient safety and outcomes. Many physicians who receive developmental feedback will self-correct. Others will receive positive morale-boosting feedback enhancing their engagement and retention.......

Surgery Conclusions: “Baseline multisource feedback scores vary by specialty and improve based on feedback, goalsetting, coaching, and education. In particular, physicians who start with low scores have the greatest potential for leadership teamwork index improvement.” Read the Full Article Below: How Physicians Change: Multisource Feedback-Driven Intervention Improves Physician Leadership and Teamwork...

Surgical Endoscopy Conclusions: “Emotional intelligence as conceptualized in this study was positively related to overall performance ratings of potential leaders. The ever-increasing roles and potential responsibilities for Professional Medical Associations (PMAs) suggest that these organizations should consider multisource performance reviews as these potential future PMA executives rise through their organizations to assume leadership positions with......

Twelve service chiefs participated in PULSE 360° feedback surveys and coaching as part of a departmental leadership development activity. Changes in the means of both composite survey scores and individual behavioral item scores over time were evaluated with paired t tests. Agreement between self-rating and rating of others was evaluated with unpaired t tests. There......

Both physicians-in-training and in-practice physicians may benefit from engaging in empathic and constructive behaviors with patients and team members. Backward stepwise regressions were used to determine which model with the most variance used the fewest explanatory variables. Personality traits acted as predictor variables in the regression models and patient satisfaction and teamwork performance were utilized......