Effect of Coaching on Mid-Career Physician Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, and Fulfillment

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout, Professional

Treatments: Behavioral: Professional Coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03207581

17-003910

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will assess the effect of individualized professional coaching for mid-career family medicine and general internal medicine physicians on burnout, job satisfaction, and professional fulfillment.

Enrollment: 87 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. General internal medicine and family physicians
2. In practice for 5-30 years

Exclusion Criteria:

1. physicians who specialize in areas other than general internal medicine and family medicine
2. physicians who have been in practice less than 5 years or more than 30 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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87 participants in 2 patient groups

Immediate Coaching Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Immediate Coaching Intervention arm will receive professional coaching

Treatment:

Behavioral: Professional Coaching

Control/Delayed Coaching Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized to the Control/Delayed Coaching will receive no intervention for the first six months of the study, at which point they cross over and receive 6 professional coaching sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Professional Coaching