cover image - Unlocking the Leader Within, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323932110
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 07-02-2025
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $41.99

Unlocking the Leader Within, 1st Edition

by Hao-Hua Wu, MD, Maria Ahmad, MBBS (Dist.), BSc (Hons), PGCert (MedEd), FHEA, Aaron Qi Yang Goh, MBBS and Hao-Kai Wu

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cover image - Unlocking the Leader Within, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323932110
Copyright: 2026
Publication Date: 07-02-2025
Page Count: 368
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $41.99

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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
  • 1. Introduction
    2. Emotional Intelligence
    3. Effective Communication
    4. Find Your Why and Build Good Habits
    5. Personality Type
    6. Confident Humility and Why It Matters in the Hospital
    7. Leadership Styles
    8. Avoiding Burnout
    9. Adaptability and creative responses to setbacks and obstacles
    10. Characteristics of Successful Teams
    11. Conflict Resolution
    12. Galvanize Those Around You
    13. Delegation
    14. Positionless Leadership
    15. Feedback
    16. Clinical Rotations
    17. Letters of Recommendation
    18. Research
    19. Leadership Activities
    20. The Art of the Successful Interview
    21. Conclusion
  • Hao-Hua Wu, MD, Spine Surgeon, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, Irvine, USA, Maria Ahmad, MBBS (Dist.), BSc (Hons), PGCert (MedEd), FHEA, Doctor, National Health Service (NHS), UK, Aaron Qi Yang Goh, MBBS, Medical Officer, MOH Holdings (Singapore) and Reservist Medical Officer, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore and Hao-Kai Wu, Founder, WorthIQ

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