TY - JOUR T1 - Physician engagement: the Vancouver Medical Staff Association engagement charter JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 278 LP - 281 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.19-4-278 VL - 19 IS - 4 AU - Simon W Rabkin AU - Marshall Dahl AU - Ryan Patterson AU - Noa Mallek AU - Lynn Straatman AU - Andrew Pinfold AU - Marthe Kenny Charles AU - Stephen van Gaal AU - Sophia Wong AU - Himat Vaghadia Y1 - 2019/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/19/4/278.abstract N2 - Engagement of physicians with their healthcare community or institution should be a central issue in healthcare because it can be translated into improved patient care, enhanced well-being for physicians as well as safer, more effective and less costly healthcare. To accomplish the mission/goal of meaningful physician engagement, we set about to establish a ‘charter’ for physician engagement. We defined our concept of meaningful physician engagement and customised the engagement spectrum construct for physician relationship with their healthcare community or institution. While recognising the importance of physician leaders within the hierarchical system for efficacy of organisational management, relying only on physicians in formal executive positions is insufficient for developing physician engagement. There is a need for widespread physician engagement across the organisation. The objective is both an improvement in patient care and in physician well-being. ER -