Medical Education
Academic and Research Skills
Trainee
Nicola Orlov, MD MPH (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Helen Wang, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Clinical Professor
UCSD
La Jolla, California, United States
Daniel Richards, MD (he/him/his)
Associate Professor
UT Austin Dell Medical School, United States
Amal Khidir, MBBS (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chair IRB
Medical Education
Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar
Doha, Ar Rayyan, Qatar
Workshop
Description: Pediatric educators who work with medical students, residents, and fellows are frequently faced with the challenge of supporting struggling trainees, however educators lack guiding principles to support those who are not meeting expected growth milestones. Coaching is an approach in education and academic medicine that can be used to help learners identify strategies and create goals to overcome barriers they are facing. Coaching is founded on the principle that, through guided self-reflection and appropriate probing questions, the person being coached holds the solution to the challenges they are facing. The coach framework can be useful when working with a struggling trainee and will be shared both in theory and practical application with medical educators during this workshop.
This multi-institution collaborative formed from COMSEP's first Coach Certificate Program. The leaders of this workshop took the knowledge obtained during the COMSEP certificate program and advanced it by developing a framework tailored specifically to trainees who are failing to meet benchmarks. The model that will be shared with attendees facilitators will guide them through the differing approaches for those with and without insight into their challenges.