The right dermatologist? With clinical expertise but also leading and innovative

A highly innovative project, in terms of its form and content, as well as its impact on future decisions, based on tools used successfully in the corporate world, such as customised assessments, Hogan questionnaires, behavioural simulations and individual interviews, aimed at acquiring evidence about the 'Soft Skills' and thus strengths and areas for behavioural improvement of medical personnel, assessing their professional and human potential with the aim of constructing targeted individual development plans.

With this vision of maximum valorisation of human capital, an innovative corporate project is taking shape, conceived by the Luigi Maria Monti Foundation, an organisation that owns and manages five health and social-health facilities in the Lazio Region, including the IDI-Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata Irccs, a recognised national reference centre in the field of dermatology.

The project has at its core an intuition that is as simple as it is revolutionary: the development of dermatologist physicians must not be based solely on clinical skills - essential though they are - but must also include attitudes, personal motivation, management skills, propensity for research and, in general, all those qualities that make a professional capable of growing and innovating in his or her role.

All this shifts the centre of gravity of the development of health professionals from a technical-specialist approach to an integrated and structured vision that recognises in the physician not only the clinical expert, but also the leader, researcher, trainer and promoter of change.

"Investing in human resources development is not an obvious choice, nor is it an easy one. But it is the choice to be made with conviction,' says Antonello Sacco, Director of Personnel and Legal Flmm IDI Irccs, 'because the most authentic and lasting value of an organisation lies in the people who make it up. Because a team that feels valued is a more motivated, productive and creative team. People become protagonists of change, take responsibility, generate new ideas and contribute to the construction of a more dynamic, inclusive and growth-oriented individual and collective working environment'.