Measuring Coaching in Undergraduate Medical Education: the Development and Psychometric Validation of New Instruments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coaching is emerging as a novel approach to guide medical students toward becoming competent, reflective physicians and master adaptive learners. However, no instruments currently exist to measure academic coaching at the undergraduate medical education level.

Objective

To describe the development and psychometric assessments of two instruments designed to assess academic coaching of medical students toward creating a robust measurement model of this educational paradigm.

Design

Observational psychometric.

Participants

All medical students in the 2014 and 2015 cohorts and all their coaches were invited to complete the instruments being tested, which led to 662 medical student responses from 292 medical students and 468 coaching responses from 22 coac

SUBMITTER: Carney PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature