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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Take a listen as Drs. Dinsmore, Cazier, and Morrison - all fabulous EM physicians and coaches let me join in a great conversation about coaching in the world of medical training. Podcast Link

We are in a series of blogs looking further into coaching and mentoring and how they differ. This week is intended for core faculty bringing a more intentional coaching approach to your trainees (and colleagues) - Thank You!

If we knew nothing more than that leading companies in the corporate world have invested heavily in coaching for their C-suite over decades, we would know enough to realize the importance of bringing it into the medical field, another high-stakes profession. (Large succe...

Last week, I walked through personal reflections about mentoring vs. coaching from the perspective of a former core faculty member and current coach in academics. This week, I want to take a stab at explaining the difference and the overlap.

As Faculty. First, let’s think through the five primary ways we relate to trainees. Dr. Tony Tsai, with the University of Utah Health, Utah Advancement Coaching Network does a great job delineating four key relationships in this graphic – Advising, Spons...

Larry Bauer, CEO of the Family Medicine Education Consortium which focuses on the critical role that Family Medicine plays in the health of the nation, hosted me to discuss physician coaching in residency programs. Their focus is on achieving the full potential of family medicine. Click here to learn more

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I have friends and colleagues that naturally grew up with the mindset of giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.  I’m not sure why I didn’t, but I used to often assume the worst about others.  I didn’t even see it as a problem until I was in training. 

Thankfully, I began to learn to give patients the benefit of the doubt during training. By way of example, I experienced my fair share of narcotic seekers and manipulating who wanted to either abuse medications or divert prescriptions for mo...

I've been asked to tell how I ended up in this physician coaching space a few times over the last several weeks. So, I decided to do some reflective writing about my journey.

Four major experiences overlapped and culminated in the creation of Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services®.

First, my own personal burnout story reached the pinnacle in March 2015. Mine was mid-career in timing (16 years in). I was absolutely loving academic medicine and all the many hats I had to wear. I really ...

(Updated to point you toward a blog series that gives much more detail about physician coaching, evidence, methods, and much more. You can check it out here). 

Coaching has been around in other fields for decades. Leaders in the C-suites of large corporations have long since used coaching to keep up their A-game. And though a small subset of physicians has found the benefits of coaching over the years, it was only in the last 5 years that data has been published about physician coaching's benef...