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The AAPL Technical Skills Assessment

An innovative online simulation-based behavioral assessment—yours for just $99.

Complete four 15-minute simulations that immerse you in authentic healthcare scenarios, assessing your critical business, leadership, and operations skills."

What does the technical skills assessment offer you?

Includes Four Assessments

Based on the AAPL Technical Skills Domains

1

Operations and Policy

2

Quality and Risk

3

Finance

4

Strategy and Innovation

Measures your skills

Based on the AAPL Technical Skills Domains, 4 assessments were created with healthcare scenarios using critical non-clinical incidents faced by healthcare leaders daily.
Domain

Operations & Policy

Competency
  • Governance
  • Communication Strategies
  • Technology Integration
  • People Management
Domain

Finance

Competency
  • Financial Management
  • Economics
  • Resource Allocation
  • Payment Models
Domain

Quality & Risk

Competency
  • Quality Improvement
  • Healthcare Process
  • Risk Management
  • Health Law
Domain

Strategy & Innovation

Competency
  • Performance
  • Systems Awareness
  • Differentiation
  • Environmental Influences

Reassess with Confidence

Tracking Skill Development Over Time

The AAPL Technical Skills Assessment is a reliable and valid tool for pre and post-assessments to measure changes in learned skills.

Time-Efficient Design

The four micro-based sections within the TSA are designed to be time-efficient, each taking about 15 minutes to complete, with the added flexibility to start and stop between sections. This allows for a quick and convenient evaluation of skills.

Rigorous Review Process

The TSA is meticulously crafted based on expert reviews by 23 Physician Leaders and PhD-level industrial-organizational psychologists, all experienced in psychological testing and skill development.

Simulates Communication

This innovative scenario-based assessment tool simulates a typical communication platform, complete with emails, instant messages, and shared files to assess essential business and leadership skills relevant to the workplace.

Start measuring your interpersonal and decision-making skills to be the best healthcare leader you can be.

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