1st Edition
Coaching for Physicians Empowering Healthcare Professionals in the 21st Century
This edited collection brings together leading voices in the field of medicine and coaching to highlight the growing challenges healthcare professionals face today, providing practical coaching tools and approaches to empower physicians to not only survive but thrive in the 21st century. Combining the knowledge of two professions, healthcare and coaching, the contributors offer a detailed analysis and discussion of the growing issues in the healthcare industry, demonstrating how coaching principles can be implemented to help improve physician leadership, well-being, performance, personal and professional happiness, and positive patient outcomes. Chapters address key topics such as burnout, resilience, emotional intelligence, career coaching, team coaching, and best practice approaches when working with the unique challenges of coaching physicians. Filled with case studies, definitions, summaries, and key points throughout, this book provides solutions to manage the surmounting challenges we are seeing in healthcare across the world today. This book is essential reading for all coaches working with physicians, healthcare executives, nurses, and allied health professionals.
1. Coaching and Perspectives
Naim El-Aswad
2. Coaching Approaches in Healthcare
Naim El-Aswad
3. The Healthcare Environment: The Current State of Affairs
Naim El-Aswad
4. The Uniqueness of the Physicians: Understanding the Mindset of Physicians, their Driving Forces, their Coachability, and their Challenges
Naim El-Aswad
5. Coaching the Physician: Best Practice Guide
Relly Nadler
6. Coaching the Physician, Not the Problem
Marcia Reynolds
7. Coaching the Team in Healthcare
Zeina Ghossoub
8. Burnout and Mental Health: A Coaching Approach
Naim El-Aswad
9. Emotionally Intelligence in Medicine: Impact and Applications
Relly Nadler
10. Resilience Among Physicians: Coaching for the New Frontiers
Cathy Greenberg
11. Coaching Physician Leadership
Cathy Greenberg
12. Career Coaching for Physicians
Zeina Ghossoub
13. Female Physicians: Unique Challenges and Coaching Approaches
Zeina Ghossoub
14. Legalities, Ethics and the Business of Coaching
Zeina Ghossoub
15. Challenges of Coaching in the Healthcare Industry
Naim El-Aswad
16. Coaching for Change in the Healthcare Industry
Naim El-Aswad
Biography
Naim El-Aswad, MD, FACP, ACC, is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a healthcare professional coach. He has been an internist and emergency room physician for over 20 years. He is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Vital Signs Vital Skills, a coaching and consulting company that specializes in executive, life, and wellness coaching.
"Once the unnecessary stressors of medical practice are minimized or removed, the essential ones will still be there. A disciplined approach to coaching, as outlined in this book, can help physicians understand the traumas they face and successfully balance their work and personal lives."
Stefanie Simmons, MD. Chief Medical Officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation
"Physicians face intense challenges every day and these challenges leave scars. Coaching is one of the most effective ways to overcome challenges and for the first time, Dr. El-Aswad reveals the power of coaching for those in clinical practice. With burnout and quits at an all-time high, this book is an essential reading for those helping to fix the healthcare crisis."
Paul J. Zak, PhD, author of Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness
"Coaching in the healthcare workforce has had an undeniable explosion of interest in the past five years yet is still new enough to be a daunting topic for those interested in understanding its scope, uses, and potential impact. Coaching for Physicians provides needed structure, clarity, and exploration around the concept of coaching for the healthcare workforce, written in an entertaining and educational style. A must read for those interested in staying on the cutting edge of well-being interventions and understanding how coaches think, process, and support the healthcare workforce."
Gregory Guldner, MD, MS, FACEP (Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course Alumni; Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California Riverside School of Medicine)
