The academy and the certification program, Dr. Holman says, will create a “self-sustaining” environment in which people may be more likely to participate in the academy if they know they can use their coursework to vault to the next step later, should they choose to do so.
It’s an important time for a new layer of leadership training, he adds, because of all of the challenges facing hospital medicine and healthcare at large. “There’s an age-old question: Are leaders born, or are they made?” he says. “And to me, the answer to that question doesn’t matter. There will never be enough natural-born leaders to get all of this done. So we have to develop people who have the interest and have the potential. We would be squandering a huge opportunity if we didn’t undertake that ourselves.”
Tom Collins is a freelance writer based in Miami.