Tag: Coaching in Medicine
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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: Upward progress is not always forward progress, higher isn’t always better, and more status isn’t tantamount to more happiness. Values are principles you hold in life or deem important. Beliefs are inferences, assumptions, or conclusions you draw from your personal life experience. Purpose is the reason you exist. If you could describe what gets you…
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If you’ve got a problem, yo, they’ll help you solve it: coaching and therapy
Key Takeaways: Coaching and therapy share many similarities: client-focused, nondirectional, supportive, and relationship-centered Therapists diagnose and treat mental health conditions, and often focus on past events or trauma to explain your current function Coaches are thinking partners who, through incisive questions, help you set goals and identify actions to achieve them. They focus on the…
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The Wide World of Coaching in Medicine
Key Takeaways: There are numerous flavors of coaching relevant to academic medicine; your career stage and knowledge of what you aim to accomplish can help you pick the best one Learner coaching aims to develop skills within trainees to allow them to self-regulate (or “own”) their own learning Skills coaching is most similar to athletic…
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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…
