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Serendipity, Flexibility, Calling and Commitment: How Clinicians Navigate the Path to Clinician-Coach
Andrew Rixon1,2, Victoria Lister1,2, Lee Yung Wong3
1Department of Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Emergency physicians transitioning to clinician-coaches experience practice changes. Key qualities like serendipity and commitment facilitate this evolution, offering a framework for understanding their journey.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Physician Development
- Qualitative Research
Background:
- Emergency physicians (EPs) are increasingly adopting coaching roles.
- Understanding the transition from clinician to clinician-coach is crucial for professional development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore practice-related changes experienced by EPs transitioning to clinician-coaches.
- To identify enablers and barriers in this professional evolution.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative study utilizing interviews with EPs.
- Combined inductive and deductive analytic approaches were employed.
Main Results:
- Identified enablers and barriers to initiating and developing coaching practices.
- Discovered four experiential qualities: serendipity, calling, flexibility, and commitment.
- Explored the initiation and evolution of coaching practices in emergency medicine.
Conclusions:
- A framework for understanding the EP clinician-to-clinician-coach transition is proposed.
- The concepts of serendipity, calling, flexibility, and commitment are central to successful navigation.
- This framework aids in comprehending the stages of practice evolution for EPs in coaching roles.
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