2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-020-06543-1
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Description of a Multi-faceted COVID-19 Pandemic Physician Workforce Plan at a Multi-site Academic Health System

Abstract: Background The evolving COVID-19 pandemic has and continues to present a threat to health system capacity. Rapidly expanding an existing acute care physician workforce is critical to pandemic response planning in large urban academic health systems. Intervention The Medical Emergency-Pandemic Operations Command (MEOC)—a multi-specialty team of physicians, operational leaders, and support staff within an academic Department of Medicine in Calgary, Canada—pa… Show more

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“…Following this research, the new physician work model was successfully reimplemented during the second wave of COVID-19, 14 which further validates the peer-professional leadership model we report here.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 66%
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“…Following this research, the new physician work model was successfully reimplemented during the second wave of COVID-19, 14 which further validates the peer-professional leadership model we report here.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 66%
“…The PHA coordinates healthcare delivery across the province. 14 The PHA had an existing emergency response plan; however, pandemic preparedness across its five zones varied. In the Calgary Zone, four physician colleagues recognised the existing approach to organising physicians' work risked being overwhelmed by the anticipated surge of COVID-19-related hospitalisations.…”
Section: Original Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
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