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PRESIDENT’S PAGE
DOROTHY M. MOORE, MD
MSD President Dorothy M. Moore, MD is an Ophthalmologist who practices at Delaware Eye MD Associates in Wilmington.
MSD: Making Strides to Make Your Life Easier
It is hard to believe as I write this month’s President’s page in July that you will read it in September and that
my year as your President will be three- quarters of the way completed. The legislative issues. The summer months and other Presidential responsibilities.
I have been meeting with the
the last few months. We had hoped when we reorganized MSD that, by eliminating the highly corporate county medical society system of
old and ushering in the smaller,
more granular, focused, free-style geographic groups, we would foster more local grass-roots participation. This is still a work in progress and it is my hope in the waning months of my tenure to foster more communication Executive Board, and committees work diligently on your behalf and sincerely strive to make MSD a
better organization to serve you, our members. One of the key pillars of our strategic planning retreat concerned what we could do to make the lives of our members better, how we could help you, the physician, make your day-to- day life in the trenches easier. These days it is certainly not easy.
DID YOU KNOW....
In March we met with the leadership from the hospital medical staffs to open
a dialog with the medical staff presidents and leaders. We hope to continue these meetings on a semi-annual basis. We
have already put into place a newsletter for them, “Medical Staff Matters,” to improve communication about pertinent issues. With the trend toward increased physician employment, this is certainly
of high importance. Your medical staffs appoint a representative to our Council. This is another way to have your concerns voiced to MSD.
The Delaware Medical Education Foundation (DMEF), one of the charitable foundations of MSD, has received a two-year grant from The Physician’s Foundation to develop a program for leadership training in our state. In the
to The Physician’s Foundation leadership training program to gain skills in leading our organization. Dr. Nancy Fan and
I attended this program in 2015 and
found it valuable. This grant will allow
us to bring a leadership program to our members, reaching more physicians
right here in Delaware, enhancing their knowledge and skills, and developing more effective leaders in our changing health care environment. These are things they never taught us in medical school but
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