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Leading Change from the Ground Up
This asynchronous learning activity provides residents and early-career physicians with practical strategies to lead change within existing teams and systems. Participants will explore team dynamics, assess readiness for change, and build skills to influence others without formal authority. An optional live session at the 2026 FM POP Conference will allow participants to discuss real-world challenges and collaborate on solutions with faculty and peers.
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.
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.