By recruiting its globalized and high quality physician workforce to establish collaborations with the Gulf regional, Lebanon could become a regional "academic hub".
If higher quality physician counseling indeed influenced patients' motivation and intentions, then this study highlights theory-based mechanisms through which specific counseling skills can potentially influence patient behavior change.
The number of 5As counseling practices reported by the patient to have occurred during the visit was associated with patient motivation to lose weight and intention to change diet and exercise behavior, supporting our hypothesis that higher quality physician counseling may lead to increased motivation and intention to lose weight.
By some distance, Bissau appeared to have the least developed private health sector (0.7 facilities per 10 000 people), with very little inpatient care and surgical capacity to speak of, although faith-based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were reported to play a significant part in the supply of higher quality physician services.
The strategic plan and vision has been built around developing an infrastructure of high-quality physicians with support staff and the multidisciplinary team approach to cancer care.
With that backdrop, I'd like to briefly discuss four programs, which have been successful because of the high-quality physicians that I showed you just several minutes ago.
And, of course, personnel equals high-quality physicians and clinical research associates who are willing to commit time in an efficiently run system.
The key was identifying high-quality physicians, obtaining their support as leaders, developing a formal participation agreement between the hospital and physicians, and finally, a leadership committee to design and review performance criteria (Fig. 6).
So one example of the success of these MDCs is demonstrated by our sarcoma multidisciplinary center where after recruiting high-quality physicians on campus and from outside recruitment, patients think twice before leaving the state for their sarcoma care.
Examination of low-cost, high-quality physician exemplars suggest that they do not differ in their mindset from leaders in any other sector of the economy.
Lebanon has a very high physician emigration factor and its medical graduates form a high quality globalized physician workforce The neighboring Arabian Gulf countries are suffering from a serious shortage of clinicians and academicians that has been very challenging to reverse.
