Sabrina Neeley, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director
Welcome
Our country needs more highly educated and motivated physician-leaders to address challenges in a variety of settings, from developing public health policies and managing massive hospital networks, to addressing global health concerns and shaping academic medicine. Tomorrow's leaders are likely to need more than one advanced degree to make a major impact in such an environment. The Physician Leadership Development Program provides a dual-degree program for those students who want to become the leaders of tomorrow.
The Physician Leadership Development Program (PLDP) offers medical students an innovative program through which they can obtain a master’s degree (M.B.A. or M.P.H.) while pursuing their medical degree over five years. Unlike other dual-degree programs that have a dedicated “year out,” the PLDP integrates medical and graduate studies through a longitudinal clinical experience that all students take during their graduate term. Additionally, PLDP students attend leadership-themed electives and special programs that build leadership skills and introduce them to experts in the field. All PLDP students participate in the PLDP Council.
Students Say...
As my education in medical school became more clinical, I began to see the commonalities among my two degrees and how integrated the topics in medicine and business really are. The program has definitely exceeded my expectations in terms of helping me to connect two seemingly dissimilar topics.
What I've realized over the past few years is that I can combine my knowledge in business with medicine in so many other ways. I've found throughout medical school that I enjoy working with under-served populations because of the need to be both a caring clinician and a smart utilizer of valuable resources. There is need in almost every area of medicine for people like us, and what's exciting is that we can truly do anything we want.
— Katie Takayasu ('09)
M.D./M.B.A. Program
Public health needs medicine and vice versa, and there is no better way to show that than in this program. The leadership stressed in this program was also attractive. Having this second degree in the medical field makes you a leader in the community and this is an opportunity to foster those leadership characteristics.
— Chad Garven ('12)
M.D./M.P.H. Program
PLDP Vision
As students in the Physician Leadership Development Program pursuing integrated degrees in Medicine, Public Health, and Business Administration, we envision an educational community of global citizens devoted to leadership development, community building, advocacy, and innovation.
PLDP Mission
To develop advocates for leadership in medicine, health systems, and population health through education, communication, collaboration, and experience.
Residencies
Graduates from the Physician Leadership Development Program have pursued careers in dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry and surgery. Our students have gone on to residencies at the following institutions:
- Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y. (Internal Medicine, Psychiatry)
- Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Mass. (Internal Medicine)
- Clinton Memorial Hospital, Wilmington, Ohio (Family Medicine)
- David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (Transitional Year)
- East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tenn. (General Surgery)
- Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio/Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)
- New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y. (Family Medicine)
- Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio (Psychiatry)
- Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Penn. (Dermatology)
- Tulane University, New Orleans, La. (Obstetrics/Gynecology)
- University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio (General Surgery)
- University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif. (Family Medicine)
- University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. (Pediatrics)
- University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Ill. (Internal Medicine)
- University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Mich. (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Internal Medicine)
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, Va. (Internal Medicine)
- WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio (Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Psychiatry)
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News
Global Health Systems Scholarship
The Global Health Systems Scholarship is provided through the Global Health Systems Program. Scholarships are for health systems research, and not for international health experiences that are primarily clinical in nature. Scholarships will be available exclusively to Wright State University medical students. The funding is intended to cover transportation, lodging, food and research related expenses. Visit the Global Health Systems page for more information
PLDP Council
The Physician Leadership Development Program (PLDP) is a unique composition of five years of dual-degree students committed to leadership in health care. The PLDP Leadership Council was initiated by students to integrate their skills and interests as well as to collaborate to promote their professional, academic, and leadership development.
PLDP Council Mission
Embracing the unique opportunities and increased responsibilities of students bridging the institutions in which we learn, our goal is to develop formal networks through communication and collaboration among students in the Physician Leadership Development Program providing a representative presence and influential voice within the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine; the Center for Global Health; the WSU Graduate School; and into the greater community.
Publications
Crites G, Ebert J, Schuster R. Beyond the Dual Degree: Development of a Five-Year Program in Leadership for Medical Undergraduates. Academic Medicine. 2008;83,1:52-58.
Schuster R, Ebert J, Crites G. Considering a Formal Program for Medical Student Leadership Development. Academic Internal Medicine Insight. 2006;4,2:10-11.
