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Wesley D. Millican, MBA
CEO and Physician Talent Officer

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Wesley D. Millican, MBA

CEO and Physician Talent Officer

CareerPhysician

Wesley D. Millican, MBA, is CEO and Physician Talent Officer of CareerPhysician Advisors, LP, and CareerPhysician, LLC, providers of comprehensive talent solutions for academic children’s hospitals, colleges of medicine and academic medical centers across the nation. Mr. Millican is an acknowledged expert in completing complex faculty and executive leadership initiatives across academic medicine. He possesses a longstanding passion for career development of all young physicians and serves as a go to career resource for training program directors and their residents and fellows.

Most recently, Mr. Millican held the role of SVP and Physician Talent Officer for OU Medicine. He joined OU Medicine to lead the development of a cutting-edge academic faculty leadership talent platform. Previously, he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MillicanSolutions, Inc., for 17 years. The firm was a leading executive search and consulting firm, recognized nationally for its success in strategic leadership initiatives for academic medical centers and colleges of medicine prior to its acquisition by AMN Healthcare in 2015. He served as Vice President of Physician Services at Physician Reliance Network (now U.S. Oncology).

Mr. Millican has long been viewed as an expert in leadership initiatives specific to child health and the academic medical center. He has a total of 28 years of experience in search execution and has completed more than 450 complex faculty and faculty leadership assignments while keeping focus on his professional passions of student education, faculty conflict resolution, retention and succession. Additionally, and in continuing his commitment to the “future of medicine”, Mr. Millican still speaks nationally at residency and fellowship programs. His Launch Your Career^® Series is a proven resource for today’s residents and fellows and has served as a go to resource for program directors over the last 15 years.

Mr. Millican holds an MBA degree, with focus in negotiation strategy and organizational behavior from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and BBA degrees in both Marketing and Management from Texas A&M University. He has been the recipient of the National Institute for Physician Recruitment’s National Honors for Comprehensive Campaign Plans and Strategies and ACMS’s Physician Relations Executive of the Year award. Recognized as a recruiting industry expert, Millican has been published in the Wall Street Journal and was a contributor to Get Paid What You’re Worth, a book by Robin L. Pinkley, focusing on compensation and salary negotiations.

Mr. Millican serves on the Executive Committee of the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship, a subsidiary of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, and the Board of the Texas Methodist Foundation and its Institute for Congregational & Clergy Effectiveness.

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Lights! Camera! Action!

Prepare: Before you go on camera: Attire Wear dark blue or brown and try to avoid black. Know Your Story Focus your broad knowledge of your subject into three key messages that tell a complete story. Think about what you would like the headline to be, and what you want your audience to remember. Consider the Audience Whom are you trying to reach? Make sure your messages and your supporting information are tailored to your audience. Avoid jargon ...

by admin on 03-07-2020
Practice Operations Overview

"So. What are you going to do when you complete your medical training?" It's a question you're probably hearing a lot from your family, your friends and your colleagues. Answering that question will involve a lot of research and hard work on your part. However, developing the knowledge and skills to answer it successfully for you was likely not part of your medical training.You are in the Medical Physician in Transition phase. ...

by admin on 03-02-2020
International Protocol

Going Global – A Guide on International Protocols We live and work in a global economy. Thanks to the conveniences of modern technology, geographic distance is not a barrier for conducting business worldwide. It is likely that you have already encountered various forms of cultural diversity in your career as a physician. Whether it is through teachers, peers, colleagues, advisors, or patients, you will continuously find yourself ...

by admin on 03-02-2020

Most Recent Terms

Trait Procrastinators

A personality trait which includes an irrational tendency to delay beginning and/or completing tasks that should be completed http://content.health.msn.com/content/pages/9/1674_51220 http://www.idr-journal.com/IDR_freeview.pdf

by admin on 05-07-2020
Time Log

A system of writing, recording and analyzing time and activity. http://www.time-management-guide.com/time-log.html http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/9034761.htm

by admin on 05-07-2020
Time Management Tool

An electronic device or paper-based system that aids in planning your time, scheduling events, tracking accomplishments and keeping notes. Common and popuar systems include Day-at-a-Glance books and Palm pilot PDAs. http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/book_contents...

by admin on 05-07-2020
Scribes

A person or software engaged to capture and record significant findings and observations. http://www.ophmanagement.com/archive_results.asp?article=85900⊂=1152 http://www.laidlawcompliance.com/emc/2004%20Policies/313%20Use%20of%20Scribes.pdf

by admin on 05-07-2020
Planning Grid

A time management tool or device designed for organizing your workload and to ensure routine tasks are performed. http://www.ascp.com/public/pubs/tcp/1997/sep/helpfulideas.html

by admin on 05-07-2020
Retrograde Planning

A drawing or diagram showing parts or details to plan backward for the future. http://www.saem.org/download/chisholm.pdf

by admin on 05-07-2020
Delegation

Giving authority to perform a certain task or tasks to someone lower down in the organizational hierarchy. The act of assigning responsibility. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=define:delegation

by admin on 05-07-2020
Master List

An ongoing list of everything you need or want to do and includes short, near and long-term objectives and projects. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic673.htm#section~planning_tools

by admin on 05-07-2020
PDAs

Personal Digital Assisant; one of any number of electronic, hand-held devices used to organize your life. Popular brands include Palmt, Sony, Pyxis, Apple and Scion.

by admin on 05-07-2020
Day-Timer

Paper or electronic instrument designed to organize daily activities, actions, and time management. http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/book_contents/3organizing/timemgmt/tool.htm

by admin on 05-07-2020
Action Plan

A document used to guide the implementation of business process improvements. It contains task assignments, schedules, resource allocations, assignments, and evaluation criteria http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q...

by admin on 05-07-2020
Power Sharing

A strategy for resolving disputes over who should have the most powerful position in the social hierarchy. Instead of fighting over who should have power over whom, power sharing relies upon the joint exercise of power. If conflicts can be reframed to...

by admin on 05-07-2020
Mirror Imaging

A strategy, which parties, can use to assess the reasonableness of their behavior. It asks the parties to look at themselves the way others see them and make appropriate changes if they do not like what they see. Once this is understood, parties can change...

by admin on 05-07-2020
Mutuality

A reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups. A method for clarifying elements in awareness, which involves bouncing two or more weak and unclear impressions, perceptions, ideas, feelings, sensations, or other...

by admin on 05-07-2020
Informal Mediation

Informal mediation is the use of someone internal to the organization who uses mediation techniques to help resolve issues among staff. The informal mediator does not have the advantages of outside neutrality or impartiality: He or she is a known entity...

by admin on 05-07-2020

Most Recent Questions

We have our share of conflict in the office and we also suffer from high staff turnover. What's the connection?

Unresolved conflict manifests itself in a myriad of ways that have an enormous, negative impact on job satisfaction, the level of patient care and the bottom line. It's not just the patients who get fed up when conflict goes unchecked. High employee...

by admin on 10-03-2020
There never seems to be enough time in the day to achieve everything I set out to do. Am I simply over-scheduling or doing something wrong?

Each physician's situation is unique and must be addressed individually. Since one cannot do everything at once, setting priorities is key and conscious choices must be made. For example, you may need to be more selective in your journal reading,...

by admin on 09-26-2020
When doctors communicate effectively and respectfully with their patients, the patients are less likely to do what?

Patients are not likely to sue physicians with whom they have developed a trusting and mutually respectful relationship.

by admin on 09-19-2020
How much importance should I place on preparing my presentation? Should I do some sort of pre-presentation rehearsal?

Rehearsal is preparation time devoted to the most crucial and difficult parts of the presentation while simulating the actual speaking conditions as closely as possible. Practice should not be going through the presentation time after time. Instead, rehearsal...

by admin on 08-15-2020
If you take a pesonality test like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator testing tool, how do you know whether it's reliable?

Reliability is how consistently a test measures what it attempts to measure. Why is consistency important? Well, when you measure something with an instrument two times, you want it to come out with the same answer (or close to it) both times. With the...

by admin on 05-17-2020
List some reasons why personality assessment is vital to a doctors's career.

Many professionals have been so influenced by their environment that they adapt or alter their inborn personality tendencies almost beyond recognition. Personality assessment tools are used to address the innate nature of the personality to help individuals...

by admin on 05-17-2020
According to Jung, the intraverted person and the extraverted person both direct and focus their attention differently. How?

The essence of Jung's theory of types is that much of the seemingly random variation in behavior is due to basic differences in the way individuals orient themselves to the world and to themselves. Jung believed that a personality type was defined...

by admin on 05-17-2020
The results of perfectionism are great for your patients, but taken to even slight extremes, the behaviors that create the outward hallmarks of the "ophthalmic personality" can lead to what within your own family and staff?

In most cases, the personality pattern of surgeons allows them to function in an extremely demanding world. Patients probably want to have someone who is a commanding personality holding a blade to their eye. They want someone who's decisive, who...

by admin on 05-17-2020
Who are some of the people that providing "360-degree Feeback" to the doctor?

The best place to start any behavioral change effort is with a baseline assessment of where one’s strengths and most serious developmental needs lie. A multi-source assessment process, often referred to as “360-degree feedback,” is a...

by admin on 05-17-2020
Jung divided people into eight personality types. Can you name at least 3 of these personality types?

Jung divided people into eight personality types: extroverts, introverts, thinking, feeling, sensing, intuitive, judging, and perceptive. Career counselors contend that those of a particular personality type are better suited to certain careers. For example...

by admin on 05-17-2020
In order to create a more positive experience for the patient, improve health care, and discover areas where you might be able to improve, who's your most valuable resource for personality assessment feedback and why?

By asking patients how satisfied they are with a physician experience, doctors can discover areas where they might be able to improve. Doctors who tend to be independent, have strong egos and deny having problems with anger or impatience may have more...

by admin on 05-17-2020
The theory of "psychological type", as defned by MBTITM says that people with different preferences naturally have different interests, perspectives, behaviors, and motivations. Why do you need to be aware of this?

Awareness of preferences helps people understand and value others who think and act quite differently. All preferences are equally valuable and each type brings an important perspective to human interactions. For this reason, a mixture of types tends...

by admin on 05-17-2020
Organization development professionals, marriage and family counselors, and psychologists use a variety of assessment tools, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTITM) to determine what?

Today's most popular method used for personality assessment is a tool called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTITM, which is taken by over four million people annually, in over 16 different languages. Organization development professionals, marriage...

by admin on 05-17-2020
What sanctions might be imposed on me should I fail to observe the Rules of Ethics?

Any of the following sactions may be imposed by the AAO Board of Trustees pon a Fellow or Member of the Academy who has failed to observe the Rules of Ethics in this Code, (i) Reprimand to the Fellow or Member of the Academy,with publication of the determination...

by admin on 05-17-2020
Would it be a good experience, for her, if I turned over all my post-op patients to my new colleague?

Whether or not your colleague should perform postoperative care must be made on the basis of what is best for the patient and not simply on the basis of what is most convenient for the new physican. However, if an ophthalmologist routinely undertakes...

by admin on 05-17-2020