Overview
This research study is designed to answer the question: How does professional coaching impact
early career academic emergency medicine physician goal attainment, leadership strengths,
well-being, and burnout?
Description
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis found coaching to have significant positive
effects on goal attainment, well-being, coping skills, work attitudes, and goal-directed
self-regulation. Randomized controlled studies of professional coaching have found
significant positive effects in various settings including high school teachers and students,
postgraduate students in a major university, and executives in the commercial, government,
and education sectors.
Coaching provides the participant focused time with a trained professional who facilitates
that participant's self-determined and self-directed problem-solving and change. Coaching
helps the participant "get on the balcony" away from the action on the "dance floor" to see
things from a different and broader perspective and, in doing so, enriches the participant's
ability to generate options, challenge biases, understand the effects of emotions, and
consider uncertainty.
This study also establishes the level of adult development of academic faculty and creates an
initial qualitative dataset for further longitudinal study and theory generation for
physician well-being, burnout, leadership strengths, and goal attainment.
Eligibility
Inclusion
- Emergency physicians
- Academic appointment of Instructor or Assistant Professor
- Work greater than 80% of their time in a residency and fellowship program approved by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) will be invited to participate in the study. Exclusion
- Mayo Clinic emergency physicians are not eligible for this study.