#428 - 🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - Are Soft Skills Actually the Hardest Skills to Master in Medicine? (ft. Dr. Clara Song) episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 20, 2026 · 29 MIN

#428 - 🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - Are Soft Skills Actually the Hardest Skills to Master in Medicine? (ft. Dr. Clara Song)

from The Incubator · host Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau

Send us Fan MailDr. Clara Song, neonatal intensivist with Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Chair of the AAP Section on Neonatal Perinatal Medicine Executive Committee, and founding leader of the Women in Neonatology group, shares the lessons from her Cool Topics talk on quiet power and soft skills in leadership. She explores how communication, emotional intelligence, and servant leadership drive team performance more than technical expertise, breaks down the four personality types every leader needs to understand, and offers a practical framework for structuring communication so every type of team member actually receives the message.Support the showAs always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: [email protected]. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.Enjoy!

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