title: Psychiatrist Health Human Resource Planning - An Essential Component of a Hospital-Based Mental Healthcare System Transformation.
abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health human resource planning as "the process of estimating the number of persons and the kinds of knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to achieve predetermined health targets and ultimately health status objectives" (OHA 2015). Health human resource planning is a critical component of successful organizational and system transformation, and yet little has been written on how to do this for physicians at the local level. This paper will outline a framework for developing and managing key aspects of physician human resource planning related to both the quantity and quality of work within a hospital setting. Using the example of a complex multiphase hospital-based mental health transformation that involved both the reduction and divestment of beds and services, we will outline how we managed the physician human resource aspects to establish the number of psychiatrists needed and the desired attributes of those psychiatrists, and how we helped an existing workforce transition to meet the new expectations. The paper will describe a process for strategically aligning the selection and management of physicians to meet organizational vision and mandate.
authors: Site chief, mental health care; chair, medical advisory committee and director, medical quality at St. Joseph's Health Care London, and an associate professor in the department of psychiatry, Western University. She has worked as a physician administrator since 2001 and has developed models for physician HR planning, workload measurement, physician engagement and leadership, and teaches widely in the areas of leadership, change and resilience.
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authors: Jarmain
mesh_terms: D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011570:Psychiatry