Evaluating the Impact of Coaching Through the Transition to Residency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coaching has been proposed to support the transition to residency. Clarifying its impact will help define its value and best use.

Objective

To explore the experiences of residents working with coaches through the residency transition.

Design

A cohort comparison survey compared experiences of a coached resident cohort with coaches to the prior, uncoached cohort.

Participants

Post-graduate year (PGY)-2 residents in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, emergency medicine, and pathology at a single academic center.

Interventions

Faculty trained as coaches had semi-structured meetings with graduating medical students and residents throughout the PGY-1 year.

Main measures

An online anonymous survey assessed effects of coaching on mea

SUBMITTER: Winkel AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780041 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature