Coaching in Medical Education - The AMA MedEd Innovation Series

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 skills 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 equips educators to coach all learners and run an effective coaching program, increasing the likelihood of the learner (and thus physician) success. This volume . . .

• Summarizes a set of robust theories, which form a scientific foundation for coaching competencies
• 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 and mentoring.
• Discusses how to use coaching to develop the Master Adaptive Learner.
• Provides various approaches for different levels of learners-remedial to advanced, UME 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 increase 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's ChangeMedEd 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.