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MARTURANO, Antonio. Leadership in medicine: linking soft skills o moral values. Med. ética [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.2, pp.637-666.  Epub 21-Ago-2023. ISSN 2594-2166.

Leadership in medicine is still an underexplored field in Italy; while this topic is of increasing global importance in healthcare, its impact in Italian academia is still limited to nursing and only few courses are available. Worldwide, leadership in healthcare is equate to possessing soft skills abilities; on the contrary, in Italy healthcare scholars still link leadership to technical abilities. In this paper, we will propose to address the problem of leadership in medicine more generally: the increasing complexity of management activities in healthcare poses new challenges to the medical profession, which actually requires not only possession of soft skills but also abilities in the implementation of organizational, societal and professional values which need a moral awareness based on transforming leadership.

Palavras-chave : leadership in medicine; soft skills; leadership ethics; transforming and transactional leadership.