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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.

October 21, 2026

Graduation marks the start of your journey as a doctor, but the question arises: "What now?" Your career path is vast and uncertain, offering choices to forge impact, legacy, and significance.

October 8, 2026

In the August 31 edition of The Insider newsletter, managing editor Gretchen Gavett shares an argument for why organizational transformation should be a learning journey, a formula to gauge your geopolitical risk, and interview tips to avoid hiring a...

October 7, 2026

Dr. Rana Awdish shares her transformative journey from patient to physician leader, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability, communication, and collaborative healing in medicine.

September 27, 2026

In this article, we’ve compiled 10 of our favorite tips on setting strategy when the path is unclear, from how to find your organization’s strategic center to how to build your tolerance for uncertainty.

September 15, 2026

If you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to consider areas for improvement others have identified along with the goals you want to achieve — and then to actively build habits in those areas rather than simply relying on understa...

This article introduces a physician-specific ethical leadership framework to address challenges like AI, clinician burnout, and financial pressures. It highlights learnable behaviors to foster integrity in healthcare.

The Physician Leadership Journal (PLJ), the flagship publication of the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL), has been reimagined to address the evolving challenges of healthcare and physician leadership.

September 3, 2026

As AI automates more routine work, organizations are losing the everyday experiences that once helped employees develop judgment, pattern recognition, and leadership instincts. To close the gap, companies must redesign mentoring for the AI era.

August 30, 2026

After years of cheap capital, many companies drifted away from managing for shareholder value in favor of loosely defined stakeholder models. Now capital costs are moving back toward historical norms, and value maximization should once again guide de...

August 13, 2026

Misconduct at work is often treated as a simple problem, yet research shows it is anything but. Drawing on more than 250 studies, Michael J. Gill of the University of Oxford finds that employees break rules for a wide range of reasons, including pers...

August 4, 2026

Many organizations use tools like RACI to clarify who should provide input on decisions, who should make them, and who should carry them out. But in practice these frameworks often fail because teams don’t apply them properly.

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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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