Distance Education Courses
Financial Skills for Executive Decision Making: April 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Financial Skills for Executive Decision Making: July 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Financial Skills for Executive Decision Making: October 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Foundations of Financial Accounting
Member Price: $404
This course offers insights on how to record business activities and interpret financial statements. Physician leaders who enroll can gain an understanding as to why financial accounting is so often political...
From Autonomy to Teamwork
Member Price: $255
Physicians are traditionally trained to be autonomous in their thinking and actions. However, as new care delivery models emerge placing further emphasis on team-based care, physicians must develop practical teamwork...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Communication
Member Price: $506
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, taught by Johann Humbert, is an AAPL DE Self...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Finance
Member Price: $506
Finance is a complex topic, but those physician leaders who understand the basics can create thoughtful and positive change in their organizations. Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Finance, taught by Hugh...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Influence
Member Price: $506
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:...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Negotiation
Member Price: $506
With the right skillset, anything can be negotiated—rank, salary, schedule and more. Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Negotiation, taught by Linda Babcock, is an AAPL DE Self Study course that delivers...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Quality
Member Price: $506
The refinement of healthcare practices in the context of quality and safety is a crucial aspect of improving outcomes for patients. Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Quality, taught by David Nash,...
Fundamentals of Physician Leadership: Series
Member Price: $2,150
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...
Improving Communication and Feedback in Health Care Leadership
Member Price: $191
This course is designed for physician leaders who want to be more effective communicators. That starts by learning the types of communication. It involves using feedback to focus on goals and...
Interdisciplinary Relationship Management
Member Price: $306
Managing professional relationships is something that all physicians must do every day. However, this skill isn’t as easy as it sounds. With different personalities, priorities, and approaches to communication, relationships...
Leading and Managing Strategic Change
Member Price: $421
Gain the tools, techniques and skills required to lead change. The key to thriving as a physician leader is the ability to manage strategic innovation and change. There's a difference...
Leading Complex Organizations
Member Price: $306
The job of a health care leader is never easy. Those leading complex organizations must be able to successfully manage many moving parts during times of change, crisis, conflict, and...
Leading Innovation in Healthcare Organizations: August 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Leading Problem Solving
Member Price: $230
Problem solving requires courage, ingenuity, fact-finding, and above all else, good communication. It is the essence of what leaders exist to do. With an insurmountable list of problems developing daily,...
Leveraging the Clinical Team
Member Price: $153
Physician leaders who are managing interdisciplinary clinical teams can learn the basics of hiring, leading, and managing new team members. This course provides strategies for effective coaching, defusing disruptive behavior...
Managing Physician Performance
Member Price: $1,190
Enroll in Managing Physician Performance to learn how to find — and keep — the most talented physicians. This course provides a blueprint for the hiring and talent management process....
Managing Task Forces, Committees and Work Groups
Member Price: $230
Managing Task Forces, Committees and Work Groups: How to Get a Reputation as a Good Leader Running a small group is an important undertaking, and leaders have a challenging role...
Mastering Physician Engagement
Member Price: $383
Discover how to create stable relationships between physicians and the workplace. Use the strategies here to build physician trust, provide performance feedback and implement change. Explore key elements designed to...
Nonclinical Careers for Physicians
Member Price: $620
Having a medical degree doesn’t restrict you to working as a clinician! There are myriad ways that you can use your training, experience, and unique skill set in a variety...
Physician Career Advancement: Mastering Soft Skills
Member Price: $255
While strong clinical skills often lead to interviews and job offers for physicians, they aren’t the only factor predicting long term-career success. Employers are beginning to recognize the importance of...
Population Health Essentials for Physician Leaders
Member Price: $1,224
This course covers the challenges faced and solutions created by 21st century health care providers. Physician leaders will study new ideologies on how prevention and quality outcomes are linked to...
Practical Principles of Change Management
Member Price: $425
Change is inevitable, adaptation is powerful, and change management is an essential Physician Leadership skill. Introducing Practical Principles of Change Management, taught by Larry McEvoy, an AAPL DE Self Study...
Practical Tools for Physician Self-Care
Member Price: $306
With upwards of 50% of physicians suffering from burnout, having knowledge of the research and theory behind this destructive force may be key to combatting these problems once and for...
Presentation Skills for Physician Leaders
Member Price: $425
As a physician leader, your communication skills are critical from one-on-one engagement to public speaking in front audiences. At some point in your professional life, someone will ask you (or...
Principles of Financial Decision Making
Member Price: $213
Gain the skills and knowledge needed to navigate the economic side of health care. Become familiar with the basic principles of finance and understand the documents that reveal the fiscal...
Proceed Until Apprehended
Member Price: $306
Proceed Until Apprehended: Building a Culture of Trust Leaders are able to build organizational trust when the workplace is consistent, predictable, and non-threatening. Creating this type of environment might feel...
Project Management Overview for Physician Leaders
Member Price: $340
Physicians are increasingly being asked to tackle projects with high stakes deliverables, but don’t always have the proper knowledge to lead them toward successful outcomes. This course has a unique...
Resolving Conflict
Member Price: $595
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. This...
Science of High Reliability
Member Price: $850
Defined simply, “high reliability” is the study of human performance in complex systems. Introducing The Science of High Reliability, taught by Jeff Norton, an AAPL DE Self Study in which...
Strategic Decision Making
Member Price: $153
Everyone makes decisions, but are those strategic decisions? This course discusses decision-making from a strategic perspective that helps organizations gain and sustain a competitive advantage and create value. Physician leaders...
Strategic Planning
Member Price: $153
Strategy development occurs in three interdependent stages: strategic thinking, strategic decision-making, and strategic planning. Strategic thinking is about analyzing and interpreting information. Strategic decision-making is about which strategy to pursue....
Strategic Thinking
Member Price: $153
Learn how to make choices to achieve desired outcomes. The word "strategy" gets used a lot, but defining it can be frustratingly elusive. This course explores the true meaning of...
Strengths-Based Leadership
Member Price: $595
Accepting the call to leadership in healthcare involves far more than an extension of responsibilities and the scope of one’s organizational influence. Accepting that call is a conscious decision to...
The Emotionally Intelligent Physician Leader
Member Price: $463
This course is designed to help learners develop deeper clarity about the nature, scope, and utility of emotional intelligence, specifically as it relates to the healthcare context. Emotional intelligence encompasses...
The Neuropsychology of Strategic Thinking
Member Price: $170
This course will facilitate a shift perspective in how we think about, understand, and implement strategic thinking. This course will define strategic thinking in neuropsychological terms and address both the...
The Numbers a CEO Needs to Know
Member Price: $383
It’s no secret that CEOs need to maintain a significant level of knowledge about their organization’s financial status, but how much do they really need to know? This course introduces...
Transforming Healthcare Through Quality Improvement: July 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Transforming Healthcare Through Quality Improvement: September 2024
Member Price: $1,190
Transition from Management to Leadership
Member Price: $281
Medical training programs can fall short when it comes to preparing physicians for future leadership positions. In this course, you’ll learn how to successfully transition from a management to a...
Value Based Care
Member Price: $1,266
In the past decade, value-based care has evolved as clinicians and practices across the country have wrestled with managing the transition to a new healthcare delivery system. To be able...