David Joyce MD, MBA

Welcome to the class.  You have come to the right place.  I was an OB/GYN at the end of my career looking for a change when I went to MBA at Johns Hopkins.  All I can say is that I wished I had access to those skills coming out of residency.  This program is a culmination of that MBA program distilled into the most practical.  Great followup cour…[Read more]

The one aspect of business not covered in this course is Cost/Profit/Margin.  In the finance section you will learn the basic financial skills and vocabulary but a deeper dive is needed.  Our Value Based Care CME course takes a close look at Cost/Profit/Margin and then uses that knowledge to apply activity based cost analysis to your practice.  Ac…[Read more]

Hi Vinod, welcome aboard.  I appreciate your goals of growing your practice.  This class is unique in that we just don’t talk about leadership as a title.  We discuss it as an activity that requires skills never before presented to us in our training.  Growing a practice requires strategy, finance, capital management, negotiation, and many of the…[Read more]

We have a nice CME course on value based care available.  I will add
the link below.  Interesting, a value based care model has always been
a concern in an over utilization scenario.  COVID has done exactly the
opposite, created an under utilization of services.  Whereas fee for
service practices are seeing major revenue cuts, a value bas…[Read more]

When I first started getting involved in online education I had a mentor from a graduate program in education.  We co-produced an online course, Business and Finance in Academic Medicine.  It was designed for physician residency directors who were earning a Master’s in Ed. to improve their teaching skills.  By popular demand, they asked for an el…[Read more]

About face to face.  As a surgeon I always thought myself very proficient at education and explaining the intricacies of a surgical procedure to patients.   Patients nod and react well to in person discussions and I was very happy with myself.  Then I discovered the efficacy of face to face education, 50% comprehension and 25% retention after one…[Read more]