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Leading Change from the Ground Up
This self-paced activity helps residents and early-career physicians learn how to advance change within existing teams and organizations. The module emphasizes practical frameworks for understanding team dynamics, assessing a team’s readiness for change, and building support for new ideas - even without formal authority.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify approaches for advancing change without formal positional power.
- Explain how typical team dynamics, such as stages of team development and organizational context, influence when and how new physicians can effectively introduce change.
- Apply appropriate change management, communication and problem-solving strategies when proposing change.
Two optional opportunities allow participants to continue the conversation and apply what they’ve learned:
- Live session: Join faculty and peers at the 2026 Family Medicine POP! Conference for real-world stories and candid discussion about navigating change early in your career.
- Office hours: Attend virtual office hours on September 23rd from 12-1pm to apply what you learned in this module and get input from faculty and peers on a current challenge. Registration details coming soon.
Target Audience:
This activity is designed for family medicine residents and early career physicians.
Support:
This activity is supported by the California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.
Questions:
For questions regarding the content of this activity or for technical assistance, contact [email protected].
Copyright:
© 2026 California Academy of Family Physicians. No part of this activity may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embedded in articles or reviews.
Lalita Abhyankar, MD MHS
Lalita Abhyankar, MD, is the District 9 Director for the California Academy of Family Physicians and a Trustee of the California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. She is a board-certified family physician and health policy advocate with a decade of experience spanning academic settings, federally qualified health centers, health tech start-ups and independent practice. She currently provides home-based wound care to medically complex patients through Wounds-R-Us, serves as a supervising physician and board member for Milagros Medical, a clinic serving Latinx communities in the Bay Area, and holds a volunteer appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.