Coaching in Medical Education

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Medical Education**

Today’s medical school coaching programs integrate a wide variety of personalized goals, including professional identity formation and academic performance, as well as community building, leadership and lifelong learning skills, clinical skills development, and more. Coaching in Medical Education, part of the American Medical Association’s MedEd Innovation Series, is a first-of-its-kind, instructor-focused field book that equips educators to coach all learners and run an effective coaching program, increasing the likelihood of the learner (and thus physician) success.Summarizes a set of robust theories, which form a scientific foundation for coaching competenciesGives clear guidance on coaching, as well as how to design, implement, and evaluate a coaching program in today’s institutionsExplains the difference between coaching and traditional advising and mentoring.Discusses how to use coaching to develop the Master Adaptive LearnerProvides various approaches for different levels of learners—remedial to advanced, UME through GMEOffers practical frameworks for individual, team, and peer coachingDiscusses how to use coaching to enhance wellbeing, strengthen leadership skills, foster personalized academic and career development, and increase resilience during change and acute uncertaintyContains tools for creating an ethical, equitable, and inclusive coaching program.Includes a chapter focused on Assessment and Program Outcomes

One of the American Medical Association’s ChangeMedEd initiatives and innovations, written and edited by members of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium – a unique, innovative collaborative that allows for the sharing and dissemination of groundbreaking ideas and projects.

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