Core Clinical Partners, a leading national healthcare practice management company, launched an Emergency and Hospital Medicine Administrative Fellowship program to provide its physician partners with essential operational experience and leadership development. As part of the program, Core is working with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business to send fellowship candidates to Haslam’s Physician Executive MBA (PEMBA) program.
About the Fellowship Program
Core’s two-year fellowship integrates clinical practice with leadership development and operational experience. It offers hands-on learning in emergency or hospital medicine with key leadership training and education. In the program’s first year, participants earn their MBA through Haslam’s PEMBA program. In the second year, they hone their clinical skills, take on administrative duties and experience diverse clinical environments or undertake an immersive experience at a single site. In the final six months, participants engage actively in site leadership as associate directors.
Benefits of the program include enjoying the support and mentorship of the Core’s leadership team while earning an MBA, multiple networking opportunities, access to experts in all aspects of clinical services and attendance at Core Leadership conferences, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and/or Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
Collaboration with Teamwork at Its Core
Core Clinical Partners is one of the fastest-growing and organically grown physician staffing companies in the country, while Haslam’s PEMBA is the first executive MBA program created exclusively for MDs. In many ways, the two complement each other perfectly, especially since Boykin Robinson (PEMBA, ’18), Core’s founder and CEO, is a PEMBA alum.
Kate Atchley, distinguished lecturer and director of the PEMBA program, knows Robinson has a true passion for forming meaningful partnerships. She recognized at once the value in offering Core physician partners the opportunity to expand their leadership skill sets through PEMBA.
“We are thrilled to work with Core Clinical Partners to enable its top-tier physician partners to earn their MBAs through our dynamic, experiential learning PEMBA program as part of their fellowships,” Atchley said. “More MDs with C-suite skills translates to more healthcare organizations with leaders who focus on best patient outcomes as well as company performance. Given the high caliber of Core’s physician partners, we fully expect this new initiative could offer more synergistic opportunities in the future.”
Robinson added that Core’s dedication to compassionate care through true partnership led his team to develop the fellowship program with PEMBA in mind.
“I was impressed with my experience in Haslam’s Physician Executive MBA program,” Robinson explained. “The teamwork required on the program’s projects resonated with me, because teamwork is an essential component of partnership and foundational to what we do at Core. So, as we formulated the idea of the fellowship program, I knew offering the chance to earn an MBA at Haslam should be part of the mix. We are excited to launch the Emergency and Hospital Medicine Administrative Fellowship program, and I am confident our physician partners will find the PEMBA program bolsters their business savvy and leadership toolkits more than they could imagine.”
Fellowship Program Logistics
Core’s first Emergency and Hospital Medicine Administrative Fellowship program will begin in July 2025 and run through June 2027. The program is open to all Core Clinical Partners physicians with a strong desire to improve their business and leadership abilities.
Physicians interested in advancing their careers and furthering their education while continuing their practices can learn more here and should contact info@coreclinicalpartners.com for more information.
About Programs for Working Professionals at the Haslam College of Business
Haslam offers graduate and executive education programs that prepare students to reach their full potential and advance their careers. At the master’s level, these programs include the Haslam Full-Time MBA, Online MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA (Global Supply Chain, Healthcare Leadership and Strategic Leadership), Aerospace and Defense MBA, Physician Executive MBA, Master of Accountancy, M.A. in Economics, M.S. in Business Analytics, M.S. in Management and Human Resources, M.S. in Marketing, M.S. in Supply Chain Management Online and M.S. in Business Cybersecurity Online. Haslam also offers a full portfolio of doctoral programs.
Haslam’s graduate programs address real-world challenges through an interdisciplinary approach that develops both analytical and leadership skills. Its faculty are industry thought leaders, seasoned practitioners and accomplished researchers who work tirelessly to create dynamic, relevant and impactful learning experiences.
About Core Clinical Partners
Core Clinical Partners is a physician-founded and physician-led practice management company founded on the principles of partnership, transparency and clinical alignment, overseeing 38 emergency medicine and hospital medicine programs in 11 states that serve more than a million patients annually. In a market where outsourced groups have become vendors to their hospitals and staffing agencies to their clinicians, Core does things differently by developing unique models at each site that align with the needs of both the facility and the clinicians. By combining the capabilities of a national group with the kind of individualized, on-the-ground service usually only found in smaller groups, Core guides hospitals and health systems on their journey toward top-tier metrics and outstanding patient experience. For more information, visit coreclinicalpartners.com.
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