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Faculty Coaching Approach to Individualized Learning Plans

As I end the physician coaching series to focus on faculty, I want to continue the conversation from last week about faculty ...

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What is Physician Coaching and How Does it Compare to Faculty Coaching-Skills?

This post is part of the Faculty Coaching Skills Series, which explores how faculty can apply coaching approaches in medical...

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What is Physician Coaching? Implimentations in GME

As we close out the blog series What is Physician Coaching? I wanted to highlight the use of coaching in Graduated Medical Ed...

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What is Physician Coaching? Coach Training

We have been in a series looking at various aspects of physician coaching. We started with the definition and moved on to the...

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What is Physician Coaching? The Evidence

We are continuing our blog series, What is physician coaching?  So far, we have covered the definition, discussed what the co...

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What is Physician Coaching? Tools and Various Formats

We are continuing our blog series, What is physician coaching?  So far, we have covered the definition and discussed what bot...

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What is Physician Coaching? Coach and Coachee-Specific Components

We are in the middle of a blog series all about physician coaching. Last week, we reviewed the definition - what it is and wh...

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What is Physician Coaching? A Definition

I’m starting a new blog series all about physician coaching. We will cover the basics of what physician coaching is and isn’t...

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, Part 8 - Competence

This week, we conclude our series of the three foundational ingredients that support physicians’ psychological health. We cam...

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, Part 7 - Relatedness

This week, we are finally moving on in our series to the second key component for physicians' psychological health. Relatedne...

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, Part 6 - Autonomy in Training

We are finally in the last chapter of autonomy as one of three key underpinnings of psychological fitness for physicians – au...

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Psychological Fitness Foundations, Part 5 - Autonomy of Team

Continuing our series on psychological foundations for physician mental fitness (autonomy, connectedness, and competence) via...

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