About APS: Philosophy

Changing Medicine - One Team at a Time

The world of healthcare delivery is breathtakingly complex and changing at high speed. The professionals who serve patients every day face a tremendous challenge in their effort to give the best possible care while working within a rapidly evolving system. Even efforts to streamline or improve care create a need for clinical teams to not only absorb new information but also find the most effective ways to practice in a new environment. And in the midst of this there is risk: risk of error and the many costs of potentially tragic outcomes.

At APS, we are committed to the idea that knowledge enables people to realize their best intentions and accomplish their best work. Whether it is creating lifelong training and education for doctors and nurses so that they can conveniently and continuously adapt to new environments and new knowledge, or helping to educate a jury so that it can make the best possible decision, the APS community works every day to make knowledge available in the service of the medical community, their patients, and the organizations that support them.

For two decades, we have worked in the courtroom, supporting doctors, nurses, and hospitals by helping legal defense teams educate juries. While we continue to provide this valuable service, our mission is much larger. We are building on the lessons we learned there—lessons about the origin of error and risk and lessons about how to present complex clinical education for the greatest benefit—to get at the root of the issue: reducing risk by reducing error and improving safety.

To succeed in the healthcare delivery system of the future, clinicians will require a training and education environment that delivers the most important knowledge in a way that is immediately applicable, universally accessible, highly individualized, and thoroughly engaging. Traditional continuing education in health care will not get us there. APS is building the education environment of the future. Through clinically focused, interactive, engaging instruction, delivered online and representing the gold standard in quality of both content and design, we offer transformative education that has already saved both money and lives.

Beginning in obstetrics, we now offer programs in surgery and internal medicine and will be expanding from there. Our recent addition of a monthly subscription competency maintenance offering creates the possibility of continuously affirming and refining the knowledge gained through the investment in initial training. In the future we will be adding new approaches that will make knowledge more convenient, more engaging, and universally accessible.

We look forward to partnering with you to make your world safer.

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