Career coach preferences of medical students: coaching specialist or specialistic coach?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students' demand for career coaching is growing. However, little is known about what type of career coach they prefer. Using the Warmth-Competence Framework, we investigated if and why medical students prefer physician coaches compared to career psychologist coaches. We also examined whether students' coach choice related to coaches' amount of experience with medical students.

Methods

In a two-by-two between participants vignette study (n = 147), we manipulated coach occupational background (physician vs. psychologist) and experience with coaching medical students (limited vs. considerable). Participants read one coach description, rated the likelihood that they would choose the coach, and rated the coach on dimensions of warmth and competence.

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SUBMITTER: Fris DAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740245 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature