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.

From closing knowledge gaps in finance and AI to building emotional intelligence and peer communities, the future of healthcare demands bilingual leaders fluent in both medicine and strategy.

Employees are increasingly turning to AI for career advice, emotional support, and even friendship. However, researchers found that despite these interactions, more than half of 1,545 U.S. knowledge workers surveyed felt lonely at work—a factor linked to lower job satisfaction and greater intent to quit. Their research suggests that AI cannot replace the benefits of human connection and may erode collaboration, trust, and social skills over time. The authors recommend taking five measures to prevent those problems.

Explore the critical intersection of medical training, abortion restrictions, and workforce challenges in this insightful episode of SoundPractice. Host Mike Sacopulos speaks with Dr. Anisha Ganguly and Dr. Anna Morenz about their groundbreaking study published in JAMA Network Open (March 2026), analyzing the impact of abortion laws on residency applications across the U.S. Discover how these restrictions are reshaping the physician pipeline, affecting both male and female applicants, and exacerbating shortages in key specialties like OB-GYN, primary care, and emergency medicine. This episode sheds light on the long-term implications for healthcare access in restricted states.