Coaching in Medical Education

Today’s medical school coaching programs integrate a wide variety of personalized goals, including professional identity formation and academic performance, as well as community building, leadership and lifelong learning skills, clinical skill development, and more.?Coaching in Medical Education, part of the American Medical Association’s MedEd Innovation Series, is a?first-of-its-kind, instructor-focused field book?that that equips educators to coach medical students or run an effective medical student coaching program, increasing the likelihood of medical student (and thus physician) success. Gives clear guidance on coaching, as well as how to design, implement, and evaluate a coaching program in today’s institutions.

Explains the difference between coaching and traditional advising.

Provides various approaches for different levels of learners—remedial to advanced, UMG through GME.

Offers practical frameworks for individual, team, and peer coaching.

Discusses how to use coaching to enhance wellbeing, strengthen leadership skills, foster personalized academic and career development, and resilience during change and acute uncertainty.

Contains tools for creating an ethical, equitable, and inclusive coaching program.

Includes a chapter focused on Assessment and Program Outcomes.

One of the American Medical Association Change MedEd initiatives and innovations, written and edited by members of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium – a unique, innovative collaborative that allows for the sharing and dissemination of groundbreaking ideas and projects.