Career coaching to support medical student career decision-making: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated whether career coaching can reduce medical students' career decision-making stress through clarifying students' self-concept, increasing career decision self-efficacy, and lowering perceived time pressure to make a career decision. We evaluated the effectiveness of a coaching intervention (including five individual coaching sessions over eight months) using a randomized-waitlist controlled trial design. Participating medical master's students completed a first survey (T1). The intervention condition (n = 94) started the coaching program right away. The waitlist-control condition (n = 130) started after 8.5 months. Participants in the intervention condition completed a second (T2) survey three weeks after their last coaching session. Participants in the waitlist-cont

SUBMITTER: Fris DAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12572062 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature