Relevant, competency-based training from industry leaders. (And certification potential.)
Vanguard Meeting
This is an exclusive, invite-only event for Vanguard members - seasoned physician leaders whose education, career achievements, and dedication to leadership in the health care industry set them apart from the rest. Enhance your understanding and engage via panels, cases, pee...
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Building Bridges with Payors
New In today's ever-changing healthcare landscape, building strong relationships with payors is essential for healthcare organizations to succeed. This course is designed to provide physician leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively communicate with payors and ...
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Physician Enterprise: Return on Investment
New Managing a physician enterprise requires clear compatibility between strategic objectives and operational performance. Physician enterprises of all sizes and levels of integration struggle to utilize data to drive action and accountability from the C-suite to the front desk.
Revenue Cycle Check Up
New If you’ve ever asked your practice administrator, “How are we doing?” or you’ve asked yourself “Why am I working as hard as ever and generating less revenue?” This session will show you why through a forensic analysis of the financial reports that every physician should know...
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2025 Annual Leadership Conference
New Inspiring Change through Bold Leadership: Celebrating 50 Years and Beyond Boston, MA | April 25 – 27, 2025
Change Management Academy
New Becoming adept at leading change—rather than merely fumbling your way through it—will contribute volumes to your ability to create impact, energize engagement, and drive results.
Essentials of Health Law
Throughout this course, you’ll learn about topics such as medical error liability, managed care contracting, patient rights, equal opportunity in the workplace, and more.
Finance - Budgeting and Forecasting
New This course aims to give participants a comprehensive understanding of the budgeting process and its significance in financial planning and management within the healthcare industry.
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Communication
Everyone sees the world differently, and that’s why communicating with other people isn’t a one-size-fits-all affair. Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Communication provides actionable advice to help physician leaders adjust their communication style and delivery to mak...
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Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Influence
Influence is a major component of leadership. Not to be confused with power or control, influence is leveraging key tactics that involve, connect, and inspire others. Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Influence, is full of concepts that will help physician leaders to rec...
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Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Negotiation
Take charge of the negotiation process Negotiate win-win outcomes and that enhance long-term working relationships Learn how to avoid costly conflict
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Series
Build a well-rounded foundation of leadership and influence skills by enrolling in the Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Series. Taught by some of AAPL’s finest instructors, this series is a bundle of five courses in which participants will explore tactics and strategies...
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Healthcare Operations Management Academy
The clinical advances in medicine in the last 25 years have been nothing short of astounding, yet the delivery of healthcare often comes up short. Emergency departments are still crowded, patients wait forever to get appointments, delays are commonplace. Everyone is trying ...
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Managing Physician Performance
This course provides a blueprint for the hiring and talent management process. Those registered will explore strategies for interviewing, hiring, coaching, performance evaluations, and more. By the end of the course, physician leaders will have covered many strategies and ta...
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Mastering Emotional Intelligence
This course will equip you with the intrapersonal skills and interpersonal strategies to exude greater emotional intelligence in the healthcare context. Through the in-depth analysis of case studies and real-world situations, you will develop enhanced proficiency in behavior...
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Population Health Academy
This academy is designed for physicians who want data that leads to real, actionable change in their work – and for those physicians, in all types of practices, who believe in a “no outcome, no income” vision for the future of health care.
Resolving Conflict
As a physician leader, effectively addressing and resolving conflict is a primary skill that serves you throughout your career and could be life-altering for your employees or patients. The critical communication skills in this course can help you to turn conflict into colla...
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Science of High Reliability
Defined simply, “high reliability” is the study of human performance in complex systems. Introducing The Science of High Reliability, in which Physician Leaders will explore the systems thinking, analysis of serious safety events, and techniques to minimize mistakes.
Strengths-Based Leadership
Accepting the call to leadership in healthcare involves far more than an extension of responsibilities and the scope of one’s organizational influence.
Using the CPI 260 for Leadership Development
New Every physician leader possesses a unique combination of character traits that shape how they function and perform as a healthcare professional. From this perspective, each leader has distinctive development needs that must be independently defined.
Value-Based Care
In the complicated world of payment and delivery system reform, this course will deconstruct the most challenging concepts for the novice yet provides sophisticated insights for even the most seasoned physician executive.