SUMMARY
Healthcare has always been a complex system phenomenon which needs accountability from the leading clinical and management roles. Adequate and competent leadership is recognized as a driving point for a successful healthcare division. Medical professionals taking charge for quality improvement are well placed yet the style to deliver their leadership qualities bears a massive significance. While exceptional clinical prowess is of tremendous importance, harmonious teamwork, inefficiency reduction and patient communication and safety lead to noteworthy health management outcomes. Explores not explains the importance of leadership, qualities and styles of a leader, various leadership theories, the impact of leadership in medical education and the current issues related to medical leadership.doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.4.4918How to cite this:Khan RN, Aziz A, Siddiqui NA. Clinicians as Leaders: Impact and Challenges. Pak J Med Sci. 2022;38(4):1069-1072. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.4.4918This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.