Effect of Coaching on Surgeon Well-Being, Job Satisfaction, & Fulfillment

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Professional Burnout; Professional Stress; Job Stress

Treatments: Behavioral: Professional Coaching

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04235751

19-011708

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to determine if individualized professional coaching improves physicians' sense of well-being and job satisfaction.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Surgeons at Mayo Clinic

Exclusion criteria

• Retired surgeons at Mayo Clinic; physicians in other disciplines or organizations

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Immediate Coaching Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive 6 professional coaching sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Professional Coaching

Delayed Coaching Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects will receive no coaching for the first six months of the study, at which point they cross over and receive 6 professional coaching sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Professional Coaching