title: The case for the medical director.
abstract: Seeking to fulfill their ultimate responsibility for quality of care, growing numbers of hospital boards have created the post of full-time, salaried medical director. Medical staffs have often resisted such a position, seeing in it a threat to cherished concepts of self-governance and an institutional balance of power. However, such a step is designed to enhance rather than control medical practice, and it will not inhibit physicians from playing an increasingly effective role in institutional affairs.
mesh_terms: D006075:Governing Board; D007587:Job Description; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008486:Physician Executives; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States