Coaching in Medical Education

Today s medical school coaching programs integrate a wide variety of personalized goals including professional identity formation and academic performance as well as community building leadership and lifelong learning skills clinical skill development and more ?Coaching in Medical Education part of the American Medical Association s MedEd Innovation Series is a?first of its kind instructor focused field book?that that equips educators to coach medical students or run an effective medical student coaching program increasing the likelihood of medical student and thus physician success Summarizes a set of robust theories which form a scientific foundation for coaching competencies Gives clear guidance on coaching as well as how to design implement and evaluate a coaching program in today s institutions Explains the difference between coaching and traditional advising and mentoring Discusses how to use coaching to develop the Master Adaptive Learner Provides various approaches for different levels of learners remedial to advanced UME through GME Offers practical frameworks for individual team and peer coaching Discusses how to use coaching to enhance wellbeing strengthen leadership skills foster personalized academic and career development and increase resilience during change and acute uncertainty Contains tools for creating an ethical equitable and inclusive coaching program Includes a chapter focused on Assessment and Program Outcomes One of the American Medical Association s ChangeMedEd initiatives and innovations written and edited by members of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium a unique innovative collaborative that allows for the sharing and dissemination of groundbreaking ideas and projects