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 afirst-of-its-kind, instructor-focused field bookthat 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.

• 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