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Physician executives, perhaps more than typical business managers, are often generally cognizant of their own personalities and their relative strengths and weaknesses. However, as with most matters with which one has intimate familiarity, we are less clear about the specifics of our personality styles and their most effective use. This article discusses a model for using personality assessment and developmental and historical interviewing in the education of physician executives. Examples show how personality assessment can be used by physician executives in a voluntary and safe way to enhance professional development and career decision making.
D002322:Career Mobility; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000523:psychology*; D012647:Self-Assessment