Post Licensure Diploma (PLD)
Postdoctoral Certificate (PostDoc)

for Licensed Medical/Dental Practitioners

Choose from our advanced programs:

  1. Post-Licensure Diploma (PLD): Enhance your clinical management and business leadership skills.
  2. Postdoctoral Certificate (PostDoc): Take your expertise to the next level with advanced research and leadership training.

Both programs are designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in leadership and management roles within the healthcare practice.

This certificate program is designed for licensed medical practitioners seeking advanced knowledge and skills in:

  1. Clinical management
  2. Business leadership
  3. Marketing and advertising
  4. Insurance billing and coding

Program Benefits:

  1. Enhance practice management skills
  2. Improve patient care and outcomes
  3. Increase practice revenue and growth
  4. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices

Potential Courses:

  1. Advanced Clinical Management
  2. Business Leadership and Communication
  3. Marketing and Advertising in Healthcare
  4. Insurance Billing and Coding

Target Audience:

  1. Licensed medical practitioners (MDs, DOs, DDS, chiropractors, nutritionists, alternative medicine specialists, acupuncturists, etc.)
  2. Healthcare professionals seeking advanced training

Program Format:

  1. Online or on-campus courses
  2. Flexible scheduling for working professionals
  3. Expert faculty and industry professionals

This certificate program can help licensed medical/dental practitioners achieve their professional goals and improve their practice.

Objective:

Designed for licensed medical practitioners, these programs offer comprehensive training in:

  1. Clinical Management
  2. Leadership
  3. Marketing
  4. Insurance Billing and Coding

Program Benefits:

  1. Equip medical practitioners to open and manage new clinics
  2. Expand existing medical practices
  3. Apply knowledge to manage and grow their own practice

Program Details:

  1. PLD310: 32 hours, $2400
  2. PLD315: 32 hours, $2400

Admission Requirements:

  1. Licensed Acupuncture practitioner
  2. Application for Admission with non-refundable fee ($210)
  3. Recent passport-size photos
  4. Official transcript from degree-awarding institution
  5. Copy of State/National License
  6. Updated Resume

Application Procedure:

Submit required documents and fees to Royal College of California.

This program is tailored to support licensed medical practitioners in enhancing their clinical and business skills.

COURSE/PROGRAM                                                                       

PLD310 Advanced Clinical Management & Business Leadership              

PLD315 Marketing & Advertising in Healthcare System & Insurance Billing and Coding

Programs/Courses Descriptions

PLD310 Advanced Clinical Management & Business Leadership and Communication

Key management concepts and principles for managing healthcare systems and organizations will be addressed from the perspective of a general manager in charge of those activities. Case studies and readings will be used to convey a practical understanding of how to manage and coordinate business functions to achieve the goals and objectives of the organization. This course will explicitly deal with for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Topics will include planning, management control systems, financial management, budgeting, performance measurement, pricing and marketing of services, operations, management, cost analysis, human resource management, and the development of management information systems.

This course also offers insights into the provisions of patient care in a professional practice setting. Students will be made aware of the options available in the delivery of medical to diverse patient populations. Emphasis is placed on the ethical and moral implications of professional practice.

Also, this course provides an intensive study of leadership. Concepts emphasized include leadership, communication, decision and change processes, business law and the assessment and development of leadership and communication skills.

PLD315 Marketing, Advertising in Healthcare System & Insurance Billing and Coding
This course provides a study of the management of the firm’s marketing & advertising function in a dynamic healthcare organizational environment, including an analysis of such functions as healthcare services development, promotion, channels of distribution, and logistics. Includes a survey of basic methods of market research, promotional strategy is analyzed through its major components: personal selling, advertising, sales promotion, and public relations.

Also, this course/program provides

  • all information necessary to do insurance billing and coding. This course may cover the following:
  • PPO and HMOs. What it means to be an in-network provider.
  • What are reasonable and customary fees?
  • The difference between copays and coinsurance.
  • New ICD 10 codes
  • Codes are considered medically necessary by insurance and understand how to code for your services.
  • Procedure codes for initial evaluations acupuncture.
  • How to fill out a CMS 1500 claim form, which boxes are mandatory and what information is optional.
  • How to submit claims electronically.
  • How to properly submit a claim form.