129. Coaching At Every Level: The Key to Culture Change in Medicine with Dr Tonya Caylor

Integrating physician coaching seamlessly into graduate medical education is the most effective and impactful intervention we can do to prevent burnout and create a healthy and sustainable culture of medicine. Enjoy a vibrant conversation between two physician coaches who coach in graduate medical education. Bringing coaching to training programs is a win-win-win. Getting funding for coaching for your team, residents, and/or fellows doesn't have to be complicated. It also isn't hard. There are lots of creative ways to make it happen. Once in place- the ROI of coaching for trainees is obvious to all.   And when trainees receive coaching as part of their training it normalizes a culture of getting help for everyone. When attendings and faculty get coaching at the same time, the impact of this work is profound. We believe it is optimal to bring in a coach from outside your institution. We talk about gender vs mixed-gender coaching groups and the impact of coaching at different developmental levels of medical training.  Coaching helps trainees connect with presence and acceptance of where they are on the journey of being a physician. It helps them enjoy, appreciate, and optimize ALL the phases of a medical career rather than always "waiting to arrive." Coaching helps lessen imposter syndrome and helps trainees let go of feelings that they are not enough, and/or don't belong. Listen to hear what's different between mentorship, therapy, and mindset coaching and why all physicians deserve to have a coach.  Coaching helps physicians at all levels with transitions, job negotiations, and setting themselves up for a sustainable career in medicine. Tonya Caylor, MD, FAAFP, founded Joy in Family Medicine Coaching Services® after realizing physician coaching's power and seeing a paucity of it at the residency level.  Dr. Caylor has had 23 years of post-residency clinical experience, 14 of those years involving academic medicine at the residency level. If you want to bring coaching to family medicine residency programs, reach out to Dr. Caylor here: www.joyinfamilymedicine.com. If you want to bring coaching to a fellowship program (or a team of attendings), reach out to Jessie. She is an Assistant Volunteer Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF.  She has experience as a Department Chief, a Chief Resident, and a preceptor of many different levels of medical education.  She has recently successfully advocated for and brought ongoing coaching to fellowship programs at Stanford University and the Medical University of South Carolina.  She presented the success of her coaching work at Stanford at the American Conference of Physician Health in 2021. Working with fellows, and bringing coaching to fellowship programs is one of Jessie's greatest coaching pleasures. Reach out to bring this win-win to your fellowship program and institution by emailing [email protected]. If you want to set yourself up with coaching-  where all effective advocacy for coaching in GME begins, reach out to Dr. Mahoney www.jessiemahoneymd.com *Nothing in this episode should be considered medical advice. #physicianburnout #physicianwellness #culturechange #physicianlifecoaching