It’s already almost time for me to begin the second week of my residency. My first week went by pretty quickly. I ended up spending a large portion of my first week shadowing Lake Pointe’s Director of Business Development. He helps to oversee physician relations (amongst many other things!), so I was able to accompany him and several of the hospital’s Physician Liaisons on physician visits.
One thing that I’ve enjoyed understanding better is seeing how Lake Pointe’s Health Network is organized. The main hospital is a 112 bed hospital, but there are also several outpatient centers that Lake Pointe has in order to serve community health needs. I’ve had the opportunity to visits several of these centers while on physician visits and have enjoyed getting a glimpse into the role of Physician Liaisons.
In addition to going on physician visits, I also had the opportunity to sit in on some key meetings and join the hospital’s leaders on their morning Gemba walks to see individual department’s Lean Daily Management boards. I’ve enjoyed learning about what each individual department is tracking as goals and seeing what actions they’re taking to meet them.
My schedule for next week and the rest of June and July has also been finalized! I’m really looking forward to getting into my rotation schedule, getting to know more people at the hospital, learning more about the departments, and gaining a stronger understanding of everything they do to make the hospital run!
Erin