Description: This text serves as a comprehensive, state-of-the art definitive reference on surgical mentorship and leadership. This book is a practical, useful guide that reviews select topics on leadership and mentorship, as well as provides key information on how to launch a successful "young" surgical career. This volume focuses on key points on how to identify mentors, highlight mentor-mentee "pearls", as well as define key leadership traits in being successful as an academic surgeon. Chapters are written by national and international leaders in their fields and have boxes that highlight key lessons learned and leadership pearls for easy reference.
Surgical Mentorship and Leadership is as a very useful resource for young surgical faculty, as well as fellows and residents in a broad array of surgical training programs.
Review Quotes: "This volume in the Success in Academic Surgery series is devoted to mentorship and leadership in all of the various arenas of academic surgery and the various stages of an academic career. The book is unusual in its thoughtful and pragmatic approach to the end career stages, as well as the beginning. ... This book will be of use to academic surgeons in all stages of their careers." (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody's Book Reviews, August, 2018)