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Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges
Over the years, medical practice in Nigeria has evolved in scope and practice, in terms of changing disease patterns, patients' needs, and social expectations. In addition, there is a growing sentiment especially among the general public and some health workers that most doctors are bad manager...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4743284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26903692 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.171614 |
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author | Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa Akinwumi, Adebowale Femi |
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description | Over the years, medical practice in Nigeria has evolved in scope and practice, in terms of changing disease patterns, patients' needs, and social expectations. In addition, there is a growing sentiment especially among the general public and some health workers that most doctors are bad managers. Besides drawing examples from some doctors in top management positions that have performed less creditably, critics also harp on the fact that more needs to be done to improve the training of doctors in health management. This article describes the role of doctors in this changing scene of practice and highlights the core areas where doctors' managerial competencies are required to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. Areas such as health care financing, essential drugs and supplies management, and human resource management are emphasized. Resources to be managed and various skills needed to function effectively at the different levels of management are also discussed. To ensure that doctors are well-skilled in managerial competencies, the article concludes by suggesting a curriculum review at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medical training to include newer but relevant courses on health management in addition to the existing ones, whereas also advocating that doctors be incentivized to go for professional training in health management and not only in the core clinical specialties. |
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spelling | pubmed-47432842016-02-22 Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa Akinwumi, Adebowale Femi Niger Med J Symposium Over the years, medical practice in Nigeria has evolved in scope and practice, in terms of changing disease patterns, patients' needs, and social expectations. In addition, there is a growing sentiment especially among the general public and some health workers that most doctors are bad managers. Besides drawing examples from some doctors in top management positions that have performed less creditably, critics also harp on the fact that more needs to be done to improve the training of doctors in health management. This article describes the role of doctors in this changing scene of practice and highlights the core areas where doctors' managerial competencies are required to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. Areas such as health care financing, essential drugs and supplies management, and human resource management are emphasized. Resources to be managed and various skills needed to function effectively at the different levels of management are also discussed. To ensure that doctors are well-skilled in managerial competencies, the article concludes by suggesting a curriculum review at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medical training to include newer but relevant courses on health management in addition to the existing ones, whereas also advocating that doctors be incentivized to go for professional training in health management and not only in the core clinical specialties. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4743284/ /pubmed/26903692 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.171614 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Nigerian Medical Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Symposium Ojo, Temitope Olumuyiwa Akinwumi, Adebowale Femi Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title | Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title_full | Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title_fullStr | Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title_short | Doctors as managers of healthcare resources in Nigeria: Evolving roles and current challenges |
title_sort | doctors as managers of healthcare resources in nigeria: evolving roles and current challenges |
topic | Symposium |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4743284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26903692 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0300-1652.171614 |
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