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Unlocking the Leader Within, 1st Edition

A Medical Student’s Guide to Practical Leadership
Authors :
Hao-Hua Wu & Maria Ahmad & Aaron Qi Yang Goh & Hao-Kai Wu
Date of Publication: 10/2025
This item will be released on 13/10/2025. Pre-order now and we will deliver on the release date.
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 u ...view more
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.
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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.

Key Features
  • 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

Author Information
By Hao-Hua Wu, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Maria Ahmad, BSc, MBBS, Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK; Aaron Qi Yang Goh, MBBS, MOH Holdings Private Limited, Ophthalmology, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore and Hao-Kai Wu, Head of Product Management, Product Management, AscendEX, New York, NY, USA