Building Physician Leaders With a Dose of Business Acumen

Cigna's in-house leadership development program has boosted bench strength and extended the pipeline.

Just as physicians must learn clinical expertise to practice medicine, they also must learn leadership disciplines and skills to lead a division or department. At Cigna—a global health services company with more than 180 million customer and patient relationships in 30-plus countries and jurisdictions—1,500 physicians are core to the company's mission, long-term business str