Unlocking the Leader Within: A Medical Student's Guide to Practical Leadership

by Hao-Hua Wu MD, Maria Ahmad BSc, MBBS, Aaron Qi Yang Goh MBBS, Hao-Kai Wu

Overview

Becoming a leader enables you to inspire, galvanize, and achieve your dreams as an aspiring healthcare provider. Strong leadership skills are needed in modern clinical settings to enhance teamwork, communication, and collaboration. Don’t wait until you have completed training or are given a title to start on your leadership journey—start today. Unlocking the Leader Within: A Medical Student’s Guide to Practical Leadership is a unique and practical resource that equips you with real-world strategies to succeed in patient-centered care.

Discover 14 leadership principles that will allow you to excel as medical trainee.

This student-focused text emphasizes that leadership principles are learned, not innate. Any person equipped with these 14 leadership principles can be a successful leader, regardless of level of training. An emphasis on how to optimize teamwork as a trainee makes this resource unique among leadership books and ideal for medical students and in-training physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as all professional health care providers.

• Synthesizes the 14 most important leadership principles for medical trainees in two parts: 8 skills for self-mastery and 6 skills for effective teamwork
• Illustrates how popular leadership principles such as emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, avoiding burnout, and confident humility can be applied in a healthcare setting
• Offers realistic examples of how to apply these principles to the critical parts of medical training
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323932110
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	09/01/2025
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Hao-Hua Wu is a Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Maria Ahmad works at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, United Kingdom.

Aaron Qi Yang Goh works at MOH Holdings Private Limited, Ophthalmology, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore

Hao-Kai Wu is the Head of Product Management, Product Management at AscendEX, New York, NY.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Emotional Intelligence and the Art of Succeeding in Medical School
3. Concise Communication – Less is More
4. Find Your Why and Build Good Habits
5. Personality Type
6. Leadership Styles
7. Avoiding Burnout
8. Adaptability and creative responses to setbacks and obstacles
9. Characteristics of Successful Teams
10. Collaboration – How to Create the “Win-Win” Scenario
11. Conflict Resolution
12. Galvanize Those Around You
13. Delegate
14. Positionless Leadership
15. Feedback
16. Clinical Rotations
17. Letters of Recommendation
18. Research
19. Leadership Activities
20. Conclusion

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Developing leadership skills is the secret to success in medical training