Opinion: How health care organizations can set up chief medical officers up for success
It should be obvious that medical school and clinical experience, in themselves, can’t fully prepare someone for the C-suite, any more than an MBA and corporate leadership experience equip someone to be a doctor.
But all too many health care organizations promote their best physicians to chief medical officer (CMO) on the assumption that they can pick up the new skills they need on the fly. And the CMOs themselves — who often have a record of success stretching back to kindergarten — don’t doubt that they can handle whatever their new role throws at them.
