Summary of Findings
1. Teaching hospitals are constantly searching for new leaders. See page 4.
2. The average leadership search in major teaching hospitals takes seven months and most frequently results in an external candidate being selected for the position. See page 5.
3. Teaching hospitals have professional guidance and regularly use search committees in the search process for C-suite executives. See page 6.
4. CEOs appear satisfied with many aspects of the leadership search process, but less so with outcomes in achieving a more diverse leadership team. Yet teaching hospitals might not tap into all the resources at their disposal to reach out to diverse applicants. See page 7.
5. Identifying candidates with the best “fit” is the most vexing challenge in the leadership search process for major teaching hospitals and health systems; building systems of talent management and leadership development is a potential solution. See page 9.
6. Almost 4 in 10 medical school deans have no active role in the search and recruitment process for C-level executives at integrated teaching hospitals.
See page 10.
For each of the findings, we provide an analysis of the data and offer a promising practice, adapted from the AAMC’s Finding Top Talent handbook, on how to search for leaders in academic medicine.
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