Imagine your clinic would like to improve its routine lipid screening metrics. To address this, you are tasked with leading implementation of a point-of-care (POC) lipid testing device, as an alternative to sending patients to the contracted phlebotomy lab. How would you proceed?

With health care constantly evolving, physicians are frequently asked to take part in or lead projects that are necessary for progress. For busy physicians, this may feel like a daunting task, but by virtue of practicing medicine, you have already developed many of the skills required for effectively managing a project — including planning, communicating, assessing risks and benefits, facilitating change management, and appealing to many stakeholders. While you use these skills differently in the context of an exam room, you can apply them to project management, whether you are leading a large-scale effort, implementing a quality improvement project for maintenance of certification, or simply participating as a stakeholder.