title: Physician executives: where they are and what they do.
abstract: As hospital operations become increasingly complex, so does the institution's management and organizational structure. Physician executives with titles of medical director, vice president for medical affairs, medical administrator, chief of staff, medical staff president, etc., are playing more important roles than ever before. This article will briefly review some recent literature describing physician executive profiles. The results from a survey of ten university teaching hospitals are also presented as supplementary information regarding current staffing models. Finally, several physician executive staffing-related issues will be discussed in light of the literature and the survey results.
authors.affiliation: Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, CA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States