PROBLEM The rapidly evolving medical education landscape requires restructuring the approach to teaching and learning across the continuum of medical education. The deliberate practice strategies used to coach learners in disciplines beyond medicine can also be used to train medical learners. However, these deliberate practice strategies are not explicitly taught in most medical schools or resi...

This article employs Duda's (2013) hierarchical conceptualization of the coach-created motivational climate to inform the validation of a questionnaire (Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire-Coach; EDMCQ-C) that assesses junior athletes' perceptions of the social environmental dimensions proposed by achievement goal theory and self-determination theory. Confirmatory fa...

BACKGROUND In the United States, young adults (18-39 year-olds) have the lowest hypertension control rates (35%) compared to middle-aged (58%) and older (54%) adults. Ambulatory care for hypertension management often focuses on medication with little time for self-management and behavioral counseling. This study was designed to evaluate the feasibility of MyHEART, a telephone-based health coach...

11 A s you progress through your nursing career, your needs may change and you may find yourself wondering about the difference between coaching and mentoring. Both coaching and mentoring involve a supportive partner who can help an individual improve personal and professional satisfaction. In both relationships, the client or person being mentored is responsible for the decisions they make and...

Duong, D. 2017. Healthcare context for knowledge translation in Vietnam. Development and application of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1297. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9811-5. The failure to translate evidence into clinical practice has been repea...

While recent work recognizes a need for coach education to place greater emphasis on interpersonal knowledge when developing coaching expertise, it is our position that educators (CEs) must follow similar trajectory in embracing the requisite of their role and move beyond reliance content professional order shape delivery. To better understand CEs’ behaviors, authors observed four experienced C...

Consideration of a learners’ biography is deemed to impact on their engagement with formal education and connection with, perceived relevance of, educational course content. It considered equally important understand coaches who enrol coach learning in sport—their motivations, beliefs, values, existing knowledge, previous life experiences. This research explored the individual biographies eight...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TWOFOLD (a) to develop an underwater chronometer capable to provide feedback while the athlete is swimming, as well as being a control tool for the coach, and (b) to analyse its feedback effect on swim pace control compared with feedback provided by the coach and with no feedback, in 25 m and 50 m swimming pools. 30 male swimmers of national level volunteer to part...

This is a quantitative study of executive coaching to determine the key factors or ‘active ingredients’ which contribute to its effectiveness. Data collected from 156 client–coach pairs participating in formally contracted, external executive coaching was analysed to examine the impact on coaching outcome of the following: client self-efficacy, client personality and client–coach personality ma...