An Intensive Physician Coaching-as-Communication Curriculum to Promote a Culture of Coaching: A Pilot Program to Assess Feasibility and Acceptability in Faculty and Residents.

ABSTRACT: Coaching is a creative process of inquiry and feedback that helps individuals increase self-awareness and build on strengths. Although individualized executive-style coaching has become popular among physicians, empowering physicians to adopt coach-like communications skills in medical education and clinical encounters could extend the benefits of coaching across medicine. However, professional coaches undergo lengthy training, and most physicians do not have the time, inclination, or need to become certified coaches. Therefore, we created an intensive, streamlined "physician coaching-as-communication" (PCC) curriculum to train physicians in a select subset of essential coach-like communication skills to use during spontaneous encounters with colleagues, medical trainees, and patients. Our

SUBMITTER: Hoffert MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12515329 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature