Group coaching for career development: Supporting the endangered early career researcher.

ABSTRACT: Early career researchers have unique demands, many of which contribute to increased stress, decreased professional fulfillment, and burnout. Consequently, academic institutions and government organizations, such as the National Institutes of Health, are beginning to embrace structured coaching as a tool to support physician wellbeing. To date, such coaching programs have demonstrated promising results, but little is known about whether early career research faculty find coaching feasible, accessible, or helpful. To explore this question further, we developed a novel group coaching intervention for clinician researchers and scientific faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center based on the concept of appreciative inquiry, grounding the program in a positive and hopeful a

SUBMITTER: Palmer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12392355 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature