Integrating Leadership Education into Urology Residency Training

We developed and successfully implemented a leadership curriculum for urology residents. The curriculum goals were met with participants reporting that they acquired new leadership strategies and had increased confidence as a leader. We now expand on these initial efforts by proposing the core leadership dimensions for residents of managing the self, managing the clinical experience and managing the clinical team. In each dimension there are specific competencies that can be mapped to measure resident performance over time. It is our hope that this conceptual framework will help guide future local and national surgical leadership training.