title: A journey into program management: clinical perspectives.
abstract: Facing restraint and reform agendas, our healthcare system is undergoing profound changes. This article outlines key clinical issues encountered in the journey from a management-by-functional-departments approach to a program management approach. The author relates his experience as a program director in the traditional system, through a transition year, and then "going live" with program management as the clinical director of a new grouping of services.
authors.affiliation: University of Ottawa.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Beauséjour
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000592:standards; D009864:Ontario; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000592:standards; D010819:Physician's Role; D017749:Total Quality Management