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Burn the Ships: How to refocus your identity inward and avoid the Title Trap
The risk of using external trappings – titles, roles, reputations – to define our identity can be that they indeed trap us in that identity.
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Wagons East: The Value of “Upward Progress”
Key Takeaways: When I was a kid, I had a knack for convincing my parents to take me to comedy movies that I had no business seeing (was I a 9 year old boy watching the opening scene of sperm swimming to inseminate an egg in Look Who’s Talking? Yes, yes I was). After a…
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Writing Accountability Groups
Key Takeaways: If you’re an academic educator, I’m willing to bet that you have a project that you always said you’ll write up, but it’s lingering in limbo at this very moment. And if not, you’re either the world’s most remarkably effective academic, or you should be checking to see if your pants are currently…
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If you’ve got a problem, yo, they’ll help you solve it: coaching and therapy
Key Takeaways: I’ve often colloquially referred to professional coaching as “career therapy,” and I still think that moniker holds up in many ways (though coaching certainly isn’t applicable to one’s career). Instead of the issue- or content-focused dynamic of advising or mentoring, coaching is meant to focus on a client’s relationship to the issue or…
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The Wide World of Coaching in Medicine
Key Takeaways: Coaching in Academic Medicine This may come as no surprise from a blog about coaching, but the concept of coaching is becoming more and more common within the medical education world. Up to this point, it has primarily caught on at the career poles: medical students and institutional leaders. However, more and more…
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The Magic of Goal Setting
Key Takeaways: Goal Setting is magical! What other single action can you do that will improve your effort, persistence, motivation, focus, self-efficacy, and actual task performance? SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely) and WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, and Plan) are goal setting rubrics that can help you be set higher-quality goals right away. After…
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Coaching the Master Adaptive Learner
Key Takeaways: The Master Adaptive Learner conceptual model, which aims to describe how medical trainees develop the ability to self-regulate their learning, identifies coaching as a critical component This seems intuitive, as coaching has been linked to many positive outcomes: improved learner self-reflection and teaching effectiveness, resident goal-setting and reflective capacity, resident development of adaptive expertise, faculty…
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Coaching, Mentoring, Sponsoring, Advising: A Guide to the Many Forms of Professional Relationships
Key Takeaways: Professional relationships are instrumental to personal growth from budding student to academic physician. Mentoring is a longitudinal relationship built around a transfer of knowledge and skills from a senior to a junior person Advising is similar to mentoring in that the advisor provides specific information to help the advisee, but it tends to…
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The Coach as Leader
I can think of few better topics to write a post about in these early days of the AEC blog than coaching and leadership within healthcare. In Coaching as a Leadership Style, Dr. Robert Hicks provides both a model for coaching individuals within the healthcare space, but also a convincing argument that the techniques of…
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Learning from Struggle and Setback in Academic Medicine: The Failure CV
Key Takeaways: A Failure CV can help you by assessing your non-successes in order to gain important insights that allow you to grow and improve. Failure is ubiquitous in medicine, but our sociocultural norms and ego keep it hidden Leaders can go a long way towards destigmatizing professional failure by sharing their own Failure CVs.…
Jeremy Branzetti: Clinician. Educator. Scholar. Coach. 