title: Role stress among physician executives.
abstract: On the one hand, physician executives are clinicians who place value on professional autonomy. As clinicians, the best interests of the patient drive their decision making and their value system. On the other hand, as managers, physician executives serve as agents of an organization. Because of the differences in the two cultures, some physicians have called the physician executive position a "no man's land" To address these issues and answer the questions that surround them, the authors developed a survey that was mailed to a random sample of the membership of the American College of Physician Executives. Parts of the survey served in other studies of role conflict and role ambiguity. Parts of the survey are new, developed specifically to analyze the physician executive role. The findings are reported in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Administration, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tompkins
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jagmin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000523:psychology*; D010819:Physician's Role; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology