Penetrating a Medical Staff

A steady offering of programs can slowly penetrate a medical staff. For example, in the first decade of work at St. Vincent Hospital, there was an average of 56 program registrations yearly. While the penetration may seem slow, 565 registrations were logged in ten years. Numbers do not really tell the story. Some physicians embrace these programs more enthusiastically than others. Some physicians attend several programs; the average number of programs attended by individual physicians was 1.63. I can report no measure of how any program influenced a physician because I used no psychometric testing or social assessments. Nevertheless, there is a halo effect within the workplace that radiates from spiritually mature physicians to other physicians, staff, patients and families.