What is already known on this topic – Coaching is an effective method to develop medical leadership competencies, and there have been no formal research syntheses to date.
What this study adds – This is the first synthesis of the literature evaluating leadership coaching interventions for postgraduate doctors. The references were generally evaluations of real-life interventions, and were consistently positive about the role of coaching for medical leadership development. We also found that coaching was also used when referring to mentoring, many coaches held supervisory authority, and few coaches met professional accreditation benchmarks.
How this study might affect research, practice or policy – Medical leadership researchers and commissioners should use definitions of workplace leadership coaching and mentoring in line with the academic literature, and report whether the coach has supervisory authority.
We recommend (a) the coach’s professional qualifications, and the presence/absence of individual accreditation by a professional body as well as the methodologies and coaching protocols used are documented, and (b) more rigorous experimental designs and standardised outcome measures are used in evaluations.
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