title: [Education in leadership: a need and a challenge of the modern internist].
abstract: Leadership is the ability to guide a team adequately, to ensure that it will be able to completely develop a given project. Being a leader means having the capacity of active listening and exercising a wide variety of communicational aptitudes. Leading means working together, and facilitating that work. A leader needs to have in-depth self-knowledge as well as a good share of humility and internal coherence. The development of many of these features is essential to ameliorate both patient-doctor relationships and professional relationships in the modern day-to-day medical practice. Even though not all of us are destined to lead work teams, there is a common obligation to exercise many of the skills that a leader should have.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, España. diego.realdeasua@gmail.com
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authors.lastname: Real de Asúa
mesh_terms: D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations