As we close out the blog series What is Physician Coaching? I wanted to highlight the use of coaching in Graduated Medical Education (GME). Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) has more widely adopted coaching following the AMA’s Faculty and Student Guidebooks on Coaching. They have proactively recorded basic coaching videos and many medical schools host training for UME faculty.

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

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We are continuing our blog series, What is physician coaching?  So far, we have covered the definition and discussed what both the coach and the coachee bring to the session.  This week we will review commonly used tools and maybe unpack some of the various formats. 

While coaching is not therapy, and most coaches are not behavioral scientists, there exists an overlap in many of the tools. 

Much of the literature in physician coaching (more to come next...