Following the Path of Leadership VA Hospitalist Matthew Tuck
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June 2019 INNOVATIONS KEY CLINICAL QUESTION IN THE LITERATURE Volumeolume 23 No. 6 Reducing adverse Adjuvant corticosteroids MRSA p15 drug reactions p18 in CAP p20 decolonization Following the path of leadership VA Hospitalist Matthew Tuck By Larry Beresford or Matthew Tuck, MD, MEd, FACP, associate section chief for hospital medicine at the FVeterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Washington, leadership is something that hospitalists can and should be learning at every opportunity. Some of the best insights about effective leadership, teamwork, and process improvement come from the business world and have been slower to infiltrate into hospital settings and hospitalist groups, he says. But Dr. Tuck has tried to take advantage of numerous opportunities for leadership development in his own career. He has been a hospitalist since 2010 and is part of a group of 13 physicians, all of whom carry clinical, teaching, and research responsibilities while pursuing a variety of education, quality improvement, and performance im- provement topics. “My chair has been generous about giving me time to do teaching and research and to pursue opportunities for career development,” he said. The Washington VAMC works with four af- Dr. Matthew Tuck filiate medical schools in the area, and ANDREW J. WHITE/WASHINGTON DC VA MEDICAL CENTER its six daily hospital medicine services are all 100% teaching services with as- signed residents and interns. Dr. Tuck divides his professional time roughly one-third each among clinical ® Continued on page 10 the-hospitalist.org SURVEY INSIGHTS HOSPITALIST INSIGHTS Khuong Vuong, Jordan Messler, MD, FHM MD, SFHM Are hospitalists being Pay heed to a warning song Lebanon Jct. KY Jct. 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