[Education in leadership: a need and a challenge of the modern internist]

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.