Activity Description:

Modern healthcare leaders operate in a VUCA environment defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This session introduces practical leadership tools drawn from Integral Theory, Critical Realism, Complex Thought, emotional intelligence, adaptive systems thinking, and polarity management to help physician leaders navigate chaos with clarity and resilience. Through real-world emergency medicine and hospital-based case studies, participants will explore how to identify hidden system dynamics, strengthen team coherence, improve communication under pressure, and transform crisis into adaptive growth. The course emphasizes practical application for emergency departments, hospital operations, EMS systems and physician leadership teams. 

Target Audience: 

This course is designed for hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, allied health professionals, physicians and residents.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply integral and systems-thinking frameworks to complex clinical and operational leadership challenges in healthcare
• Identify underlying causal structures contributing to operational dysfunction, team conflict, burnout and patient flow issues
• Develop practical strategies for emotional intelligence, adaptive leadership, polarity management, and anti-fragility in high-stress healthcare environments

Moderator:

Richard Ybarra, MD

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of HCA Healthcare Continental Division and HCA Gulf Coast Division. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ​

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.​

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties in control of content are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. None of the planners, faculty, and those in control of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.​