title: To be or not to be a clinical director?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article is designed to raise the interest of psychiatrists in the position of clinical director.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The clinical director can improve the recovery of large numbers of mental health consumers by influencing the direction of local mental health policy, planning and funding. The effective clinical director will be an experienced psychiatrist with clinical credibility, who is present and available, leads by example, is flexible, energetic, delegates, can "manage up" and has probably undergone management training.
authors.affiliation: Metro North Mental Health, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Brett_Emmerson@health.qld.gov.au
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Emmerson
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Norrie
authors.forename: Murray
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patton
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000592:standards*; D011570:Psychiatry; D000078329:Workforce