Like many professionals, the author put her career on a different path than she had originally envisioned. She encourages young professionals to start their careers with enthusiasm and flexibility, take advantage of opportunities — even those that in...

If your front-line staff members understand your most important goals and values, they can represent you, the physician, much more effectively (and accurately).

Your attention determines the experiences you have, and the experiences you have determine the life you live. Rather than allowing distractions to derail you, choose where you direct your attention at any given moment, based on an understanding of yo...

Up close and personal with AAPL Board Members.

One of the keys to being a successful chief medical officer is engaging your medical staff.

The inflated ego that comes with success – the bigger salary, the nicer office, the easy laughs – often makes us feel as if we’ve found the eternal answer to being a leader. But the reality is, we haven’t. An inflated ego makes us susceptible to mani...

The final day of the AAPL Fall Institute saw the wrap up of several two-day courses as well as highly relevant topics to the modern physician leader.

Day three of the AAPL Fall Institute began with wellness activities, and a new round of courses including, what else, physician wellness.

Day two of the AAPL Fall Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, began with a challenge: What is one thing that you will change?

AAPL’s Fall Institute kicked off this week with more than 300 physician leaders, a mix of those who are well-established, and many emerging physician leaders.

If the past three years have taught us anything, it is that an unanticipated crisis may present itself at any moment. How do we prepare for the unexpected?

A panel at the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) Annual Conference, June 9, 2023, was dedicated to a discussion of the initiative surrounding the new Healthcare Administration, Leadership, and Management (HALM) credential.