It's been a while since I walked through some step-by-step methods of up-leveling our mindsets, so now seems like a great time for all of us to review this fundamental coaching strategy. Over the next few weeks, I will walk you through one method of optimization I use with those I coach mostly pulled from the framework set out by Brooke Castillo. 

Mindset is a mental inclination, a way of thinking. It's essentially the lens through which you view things, a frame of mind. It's also one of the...

As we conclude our blog mini-series on faculty using coaching skills, we arrive at the pivotal task of assisting in internalizing learning and accountability. This final step is crucial in the coaching process, as it ensures that the knowledge and responsibility gained are fully integrated.

Skill Outline Review:

• Create a Safe Space
• Deep Listening
• Develop Awareness
• Partner to Define/Design Progress
• Assist Internalization of Learning
• Assist Accountability Plan

Assist Internalization of...

We are in our blog mini-series of faculty using coaching skills.  A couple of weeks ago, we walked through an overview of and covered the first, Creating a Safe Space, followed by last week’s Deep Listening and Developing Awareness. This week, we will take a deeper dive on the skill Partnering to Define and Design Progress.   

I want to offer that not every situation calls for a coaching approach. It will often still serve you and the trainee best to take the expert advice-giving faculty member...

We have pivoted from our blog on physician coaching and moved onto faculty using coaching skills. Last week, we walked through an overview of the coaching skills to incorporate as faculty and covered the first Creating a Safe Space. Today, we move on to Deep Listening and Developing Awareness.

As mentioned last week, most of you as faculty already have many of the skills needed to coach your residents – especially in skills-based or performance-based topics. It’s much like motivational intervi...

We are continuing to unpack coaching skills for faculty. Two weeks ago, we covered how faculty taking a coaching approach differs from physician coaching. Last week, we walked through a coaching approach for faculty to consider when working with residents on their individualized learning plans (ILP). Today, I hope to offer you an overview of the coaching skills to incorporate as faculty and then dive into the first — Creating a Safe Space.

The great news is that most of you as faculty (physicia...

As I end the physician coaching series to focus on faculty, I want to continue the conversation from last week about faculty taking a coaching approach in their roles. Today, I’ll touch on individualized learning plans (ILP). 

The ACGME’s more recent standards for programs to train residents under a Competency-Based Medical Education model require that an ILP “should be formulated by the learner, include personal learning objectives, and identify resources and strategies to achieve them. Whi...

When you read the literature around physician coaching in graduate medical education (GME), you will notice the word “coaching” is used in different contexts to convey different connotations. I want to conclude this blog series by comparing and contrasting (and seeing the overlap between) physician coaching and the use of coaching skills by faculty.  

I was working on a Physician Coaching White Paper (coming soon) within the CHARM (Collaboration for Healing and Renewal in Medicine) Coaches g...

As we close out the blog series What is Physician Coaching? I wanted to highlight the use of coaching in Graduated Medical Education (GME) - specifically coaching that focuses on the professional development and well-being of the resident.

First, I want to review a few important points to set the stage for this blog.

1. Importance of Training Timeframe. During training, physicians often solidify patterns such as a performance-based worth/identity, maladaptive perfectionism, and deprioritizing s
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We have been in a series looking at various aspects of physician coaching. We started with the definition and moved on to the coach and coachee components, the tools and approaches, and the evidence for physician coaching. This week, I want to move the conversation to attempt to answer one of the most common questions I receive. “If I want to receive coach training, where would you recommend?” This will be an incomplete response but, hopefully, give you more understanding. I have only one perspe...

We are continuing our blog series, What is physician coaching?  So far, we have covered the definition, discussed what the coach and the coachee bring to sessions, and the commonly used tools and approaches. This week we review some articles and evidence for physician coaching.

Dr. Atul Gawande, Harvard surgeon, author, and healthcare leader, was one of the earliest to experiment with coaching in healthcare. He published Personal Best in the New York Times in 2011. Initially, his interest fo...