Developmental Coaching for Clinician Educators: Just What the Doctor Ordered

About this episode

This episode discusses the role of developmental coaching in supporting clinician educators facing challenges in professional advancement and burnout.

Despite intensive attempts to create scholarship equity at academic medical centers, clinician educators continue to face a challenging professional promotion environment that puts them at risk for burnout, stalled career advancement, and abandonment of academic medicine altogether. Coaching, which has a wealth of supportive evidence from outside of medicine, is distinguished by (1) being driven by the agentic coachee that is inherently capable, creative, and resourceful, (2) not requiring the coach and coachee to have shared content expertise, and (3) not being centered around transfer of expertise from the more knowledgeable or experienced party to the recipient. Initial evidence from within medicine indicates that coaching reduces burnout and improves learner self-reflection, teaching effectiveness, goal setting, reflective capacity, professional identity formation, career planning, and development of adaptive expertise. In this article, faculty coaching is presented as a powerful means to help clinician educators overcome the myriad challenges to professional advancement and career fulfillment. The current evidence in support of coaching—both within and outside of medicine—is…

People in this episode

Host: Brian McGowan

Topics covered

• coaching
• clinician educators
• professional advancement
• burnout
• career fulfillment
• adaptive expertise

Keywords

• coaching
• clinician educators
• burnout
• career advancement
• professional identity
• adaptive expertise

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: academic medical centers

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