Graduate Medical Education in Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management (HALM 2.0)- DIO Perspective

As a Healthcare Executive with experience in health system operations and graduate medical education, I am highly convinced of the immense advantages of the Sponsoring Institution HALM fellowship program initiated by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Recognizing the importance of healthcare administration, The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) officially approved Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management (HALM) as a subspecialty. The application for the subspecialty certificate is co-sponsored by the American Board of Anesthesiology, American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), American Board of Family Medicine, and American Board of Preventive Medicine.

HALM Fellowship Approved for Two Institutions

The ACGME Institutional Review Committee approved HALM fellowships for two prestigious institutions, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland. I commend these sponsoring institutions for their commitment to training fellows to become well-prepared future healthcare executives.?

The programs will play a crucial role in preparing future physician executives who will easily navigate the intricacies of healthcare administration and make impactful contributions to the field.

What Benefits HALM Fellowship Offers?

The Health Administrative and Leadership (HALM) Fellowship Program is ideal for fellows seeking comprehensive experience in health administration, leadership, and management through rotations within the healthcare ecosystem. They can rotate in the hospital, an ambulatory surgery center, a medical group practice, or post-acute care service facility. The fellows can be directly involved in the administration and decision-making.?

The Healthcare HALM fellowship integrates learning from medicine, the business of health, public health, economics, technology, law, and other disciplines with medical knowledge. It enables fellows to learn and develop the skills required to become future healthcare administrators. The US healthcare system needs physicians with administrative, leadership, and management skills to improve quality, safety, efficiency, equity, and lower costs.

The HALM program can teach fellows to manage complex healthcare organizations. The fellows will gain experience during rotations in the healthcare executive suites and operational departments.?

The competencies fellows gain with the program include:?

• Manage systems for healthcare delivery.
• Promotion of patient safety.
• Event reporting and investigations.
• Care transitions.
• Patient safety education.?
• Interprofessional Team Collaboration.
• Quality Improvement activities.
• Health Information Technology.

In addition, the fellows can attend system board meetings and leadership team meetings at the system and individual hospital levels.?

I am highly optimistic about the physician executive leaders we will create from the HALM fellowship with a deep understanding of healthcare delivery, operations, administration, and critical decision-making. The sponsoring institutions can learn from the experience of training fellows from these two world-class institutions and model their training to start new programs. As DIOs, we are responsible for training more fellows to meet future healthcare needs. I congratulate the fellows who have been accepted into these two fellowship programs.

You can read my blog HALM 1- NAMC DIO Perspective, where I have discussed the benefits of the HALM fellowship program in detail.