1. Workforce Workout:
a fitness plan for healthcare in America
Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization
June, 2010

2. Workforce Workout:
a fitness plan for healthcare in America
Keynote Address: National AHEC Organization
June, 2010
Angela Broderick Bedell, MA, CAE

3. Why a workout?

4. 30,000 hours

5. Components of a fitness plan
 Strength
 Endurance
 Flexibility
 Core

6. The reality factors of success
The “exercises”

7. Strength

8. Strength

9. Strength in numbers

10. What are the numbers
...really?

11. Bob Phillips, MD
Director, Robert Graham Center
Policy Studies in Family Medicine & Primary Care
American Academy of Family Physicians

12. Endurance

13. Sufficient FP
Workforce:
Sufficient Continued
Appropriate
Recruitment Retention
Training
A practical approach to workforce:
The Three-Legged Stool
Slide credit: Ashley Devilbis Bieck, MPA
& Amy McGaha, MD

14. “As a nation, we simply
need to do a better job
at promoting careers
in healthcare for our
rural youth.”
Alan Morgan
CEO, NRHA

15. “Flush, Kansas is never
going to be an attractive
destination to a kid from
New York City.”

16. Flush, KS
“Flush, Kansas
is never going to
be an attractive
destination to a
kid from New
York City.”

17. High test scores now indicate…
…high test scores later.

18. Pipeline activities
STFM.org

19. STFM pipeline posters

20. Flexibility

22. Not all communities are the same,
approaches must be flexible

23. “I have seen many elegantly designed "urban" interventions fail
miserably, in part, because the investigators did not really
understand the local culture of the indigenous people.”
Chris Gibbons
associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

24. Who does know the needs of a community?
Who does know what healthcare workforce is
necessary?

25. Core Strength
Healthcare providers
are the core of
healthcare

26. How do we strengthen this “core?”

27. Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy

28. Kevin Grumbach, UCSF analogy
Michael Pollan:
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”

29. “Get medical care,
not too much,
mostly primary care.”
Kevin Grumbach, MD
Image credit: Jennifer Sauer

30. Exercises
What, specifically, do we need to do?

31. Personal branding
for personal providers

32. Better packaging of the opportunity
Purpose, rewards
 Daniel Pink
“Calling”
 Stefan Sagmeister

33. Packaging of the opportunity
New generation =
new options

34. Packaging of the opportunity
New generation – new options

35. Understanding pay & debt

37.  More flexibility in work options
 “Goodbye to the office”
 Support for supporters

38. Reality Factors
(just like working out!)

39. To make it a reality: aggressive plan
Dec 2005
Oct 2006

40. To make it a reality: a good coach

41. To make it a reality: motivation

42. To make it a reality: motivation

43. To make it a reality: motivation

44. Reality:
it’ll be more expensive than you think

45. Reality: greatest need is leadership

46.  Leadership
 Motivators
 Know and care – community

47. Thank you NAO and AHECs – for shaping up
our healthcare workforce and
healthcare in our communities.