Tag: Faculty Coaching
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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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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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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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Welcome to the Academic Educator Coaching Site!

Thank you for visiting the Academic Educator Coaching blog! This is an exciting endeavor for me, and in a wonderfully meta way, I’m learning to grow as a proprietor just as you will grow from coaching. Let’s cut to the chase: Blogs tend to be various combinations of diary, bumper sticker, humblebrag, and crank-with-a-loudspeaker. Here,…