Episode 6: Candidate Sourcing Best Practices

Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 6: Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
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When initiating a search of a departmental leadership position, how can you assure a diverse and comprehensive applicant pool. The Child Health Advisory Council shares their experiences and evolution in thinking about how to reach a sometimes limited pool of pediatric sub-specialists.

Episode 5: Hiring a Department/Division Business Administrator

Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 5: Hiring a Department/Division Business Administrator
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What Non-Clinical Positions Do You Need to Support Your Pediatric Department?

Leaders at every level within the academic pediatric department require strong administrative support. The Child Health Advisory Council discuss the importance of the partnership of a senior business administrator and the academic leader, as well as the qualities that they found led to a successful administrative leader.

Episode 4: Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent: K Award Recipients

Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 4: Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent: K Award Recipients
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The first years of academic appointment are often the most critical in the career of a physician-scientist. Frequently, the first external grant during this important period is the K Award from the National Institutes of Health.

In this discussion, the Child Health Advisory Council focuses on what environment and resources are required for success as an emerging researcher obtains a K Award. 

Episode 3: Faculty Retention in Pediatric Academic Medicine

Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 3: Faculty Retention in Pediatric Academic Medicine
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Faculty are the most valuable resource for an academic department to achieve its mission. Creating a culture to retain talented colleagues is one of the most important responsibilities of leaders. It can take years for a division and department to recover after losing a valuable faculty member.  The Child Health Advisory Council (CHAC), a group of seasoned pediatric leaders, discuss their experience in retaining colleagues and the costs of failing to do so.

Episode 2: Professional Treatment of Internal Candidates

Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 2: Professional Treatment of Internal Candidates
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Overview: In this Pediatric Insight Conversation, the Child Health Advisory council tackles a crucial conversation of effectively guiding Internal Candidates through the leadership search committee process. While your efforts will literally affect one faculty member, the experiences of the one will be a window for all faculty into how you value and manage the careers of emerging leaders. The resulting faculty observations and opinions will definitively impact your retention efforts, for good or bad!

Episode 1: What is a Diverse Search?

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Pediatric Insight: Candid Conversations on Pediatric Leadership
Episode 1: What is a Diverse Search?
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Listen to what the Child Health Advisory Council™ has to say about the definition of a diverse search, preparation, selection process for best outcomes, candidate pool development, establishing purpose and metrics, executive firm expectations and more.

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The CareerPhysician Difference

CareerPhysician is the national leader in executive search and leadership development in academic pediatrics with 25 years of unprecedented success supporting the complex faculty and executive leadership needs of Departments of Pediatrics and Child Health Organizations. No one understands the pediatric leadership paradigm and its inherent supply, resource and system challenges better. The firm’s innovative talent acquisition and retention processes are recognized as the gold-standard in academic pediatric recruitment and leadership development. Through its Core Leadership Competencies and partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, CareerPhysician is exclusively committed to the continued development of current and future physician leaders.

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Executive Search

Recognized as the gold-standard in executive search and leadership development, our Child Health team represents more than 50 years of search excellence in academic pediatrics successfully connecting our client partners to transformational faculty and physician leaders. Learn more.

Institutional Reviews

In partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, we offer leading-edge institutional review services to facilitate preparedness and ensure self-awareness prior to the inception of critical leadership talent acquisition endeavors. Learn more.

New Leader Engagement Program

The New Leader Engagement Program is offered in partnership with the Child Health Advisory Council, represent an invaluable part of CareerPhysician’s innovative talent recruitment and retention process and are proven to ensure and bolster the success of new leaders and their programs. Learn more.

The Gold Standard in Academic Pediatric Leadership

Our commitment to search excellence is built on our collective passion to impact the lives of children and families through the recruitment and retention of world-class physician and executive leaders.

CareerPhysician search experts are intentional in our commitment to a boutique approach and a consultative model that ensures the highest level of personalized attention to our clients and candidates. Proven methodologies combined with in-depth knowledge of child health cultures greatly enhances the fit, contributions and legacies of newly placed leaders. Learn more.

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Networking for the Right Job

Networking is by far the most effective way to find a practice opportunity that is a good fit with both your skills and personality. About two-thirds of all positions are filled through networking, because it only stands to reason that employers would prefer to hire someone referred by colleagues they know and trust.
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Physician Compensation Formula Scenarios

Equal Sharing
Some groups base shareholder compensation on an equal sharing methodology. There are some variations, but generally in an equal sharing arrangement, profits are shared equally among shareholders.
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