American Association for Physician Leadership

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April 25, 2025

As healthcare leaders from around the world gather in Boston for the 2025 Annual Leadership Conference, we prepare for a week of networking, leadership education, and celebration. This year’s conference marks the American Association for Physician Le...

The article examines the interplay between emotional and physiological responses to illness, detailing seven basic developmental fears outlined by Dr. James Strain. It emphasizes understanding these emotional responses to improve patient care and des...

This article details the journey of a pioneering biostatistician from the 1970s, highlighting her roles at the University of Maryland and the FDA, her focus on mentorship, and post-retirement work with the Gates Foundation.

Self-Management

This article details the journey of a pioneering biostatistician from the 1970s, highlighting her roles at the University of Maryland and the FDA, her focus on mentorship, and post-retirement work with the Gates Foundation.

April 15, 2025

Impostor syndrome is common among high-achieving individuals, healthcare professionals, and leaders. Fortunately, there are many things that healthcare administrators, leaders, and managers can do to prevent, manage, or overcome impostor syndrome in ...

April 14, 2025

The author argues that cover letters are still important and uses research and his conversations with six career experts to support the argument. The article also provides a six-part template for crafting a compelling cover letter.

Operations and Policy

April 23, 2025

Why did Moody’s—a legacy financial institution built on risk assessment—move aggressively to adopt generative AI, an unproven technology? Because leadership calculated that the risk of standing still outweighed the risk of moving fast.

AI is transforming healthcare but raises complex legal issues, including licensure, privacy, data security, regulation, and liability. FDA and FTC frameworks are evolving, yet fragmented.

April 11, 2025

Creating a custom assistant is simple and requires no coding or technical experience; it can help with tasks from writing to generating troubleshooting and how-to guides, creating custom productivity tools, and getting feedback and coaching.

Quality and Risk

April 20, 2025

Innovative healthcare, like SNF-at-home, can boost recovery and patient comfort by providing care at home, easing hospital burdens, but requires careful patient selection and support.

Every U.S. physician faces an 8.5% annual risk of malpractice suits. Using statistical significance, complications can be validated as natural errors or medical errors with 95% confidence.

As healthcare shifts to larger systems, residents need business and contract negotiation education to ensure their success and leverage in the employment-based model.

Strategy and Innovation

April 21, 2025

Global consensus is breaking down on ethical issues such as anti-bribery enforcement and corporate responsibility. This moment is a call for leaders to face these challenging realities or risk potential financial and reputational damage to their busi...

April 18, 2025

In the five years since the start of the Covid pandemic, the conversation about remote work versus return-to-office has centered largely on employees. But organizations also benefit when leaders are remote—when they live and work primarily in a diffe...

April 9, 2025

If the recent decline in diversity among newly enrolled students holds or gets worse, it could have long-term consequences for patient care.

Motivations and Thinking Style

Healthcare change is slow, with innovation often resisted because of the status quo and "not invented here" mindset. This article explores disruptive innovation and strategies for its adoption.

April 4, 2025

Companies today face adaptive challenges. Changes in societies, markets, customers, competition, and technology around the globe are forcing organizations to clarify their values, develop new strategies, and learn new ways of operating. Often the tou...

April 1, 2025

With recent and ongoing layoffs in the federal workforce, many public sector workers are seeking employment in the private sector. Here are four ways to update your resume, as well as some networking tips, to set yourself up for private sector succes...

Problem Solving

April 13, 2025

You know the moment: a mood-veering, thought-steering, pressure-packed interaction with a colleague, boss, or client when the right thing to say is stuck in a verbal traffic jam between your brain and your mouth. This analysis paralysis occurs when y...

April 7, 2025

Mentorship is crucial for Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) to transition from clinical to administrative roles, fostering leadership skills, trust-building, and organizational navigation. Mentors offer practical guidance, support professional growth, an...

March 28, 2025

Tensions are inevitable in the workplace. But there is a difference between healthy and unhealthy conflicts. Healthy team conflict moves a team towards its goals and builds productive, respectful, and trusting relationships.

Finance

April 22, 2025

Healthcare affiliation deals must consider structure, economics, and governance. PE-backed transactions differ in valuation, short-term goals, and compensation strategies but share common goals of quality care, ROI, and growth.

In a SoundPractice podcast, Michael J. Sacopulos and Dr. Lee Scheinbart discuss the evolving role of CMOs, emphasizing financial literacy's importance for physician leaders.

March 30, 2025

Discover the ins and outs of private equity in healthcare and learn about its impacts, challenges, and future trends.

Team Building and Teamwork

March 7, 2025

The author outlines the signs to watch out for to help you assess whether your boss is toxic, and offers strategies to try if you’re finding yourself in this impossibly difficult situation.

January 26, 2025

The most-engaged employees work together in ways companies don’t even realize.

November 15, 2024

Like many other companies, Deloitte realized that its system for evaluating the work of employees — and then training them, promoting them, and paying them accordingly — was increasingly out of step with its objectives. It searched for something nimb...

Professional Capabilities

April 12, 2024
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AAPL believes physician leaders who are pursuing leadership education and training — and the organizations that are supporting their effort — should be able to clearly see the value of their time, money, and effort.

April 25, 2025

As healthcare leaders from around the world gather in Boston for the 2025 Annual Leadership Conference, we prepare for a week of networking, leadership education, and celebration. This year’s conference marks the American Association for Physician Le...

The article examines the interplay between emotional and physiological responses to illness, detailing seven basic developmental fears outlined by Dr. James Strain. It emphasizes understanding these emotional responses to improve patient care and des...

For over 45 years.

The American Association for Physician Leadership has helped physicians develop their leadership skills through education, career development, thought leadership and community building.

The American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) changed its name from the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) in 2014. We may have changed our name, but we are the same organization that has been serving physician leaders since 1975.

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