An Introduction to the Coach Approach to Professional Development
Date: Saturday, 14 May 2022Time: 9am - 12.25pm
Venue: Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
Capacity: 30
Description: Pre-pandemic, the medical profession was already facing increasing rates of dissatisfaction and burnout. As medical professionals attempt to emerge from COVID-19, we are experiencing additional elements of isolation, loss of control and persistent uncertainty. Now it is more important than ever to promote professional development, connection and self-determination. Helping physicians help themselves using a “Coach Approach” is one method that can enhance our emotional awareness and drive change in a positive direction. The “Coach Approach” is grounded in relationship-centered communication and positive psychology. The “Coach Approach” fundamentals provide tools to empower individuals to define their own goals and action plans.
During this workshop, participants will be introduced to the power of the ‘Coach Approach’ to promoting professional development. We will begin by defining the “Coach Approach” and describe the benefits of coaching fundamentals to cultivate development and wellbeing. We will guide participants through two fundamental coaching concepts - asset-based thinking and empowering language. Participants will learn, and then practice these skills in facilitated, small group discussions.
Dr Andrea Sikon
Andrea Sikon, MD, FACP, BCC is the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Cleveland Clinic (CC) and Professor of Medicine at the CC Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She is newly interim Associate Chief of Clinical Operations for Cleveland Clinic Community Care (4C), overseeing 1100 clinicians in inpatient and outpatient services across 124 sites. She is also a practicing internist with clinical specialty in primary care and women’s health. She has her graduate certificate in executive and professional coaching from the University of Texas at Dallas with additional certification historically through the International Coaching Federation and through the Center for Credentialing and Education. Dr Sikon is the Executive Director and founder of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Excellence in Coaching and Mentoring (CECM), established in 2008 with Dr. Elaine Schulte. With over 1900 participants, the Center's vision is to foster a relationship-centered, coaching culture in healthcare. The Center has three focuses of work: We teach healthcare professionals coaching fundamentals and how to use our unique coaching framework to peer coach, mentor and lead using a coach approach and we teach how to be coached and mentored.
Dr. Sikon has carried an emphasis on well-being and catalyzing innovation from her department to the entire health care system. In her work to bring the concepts of the Patient Centered Medical Home to life for CC, she has also remained a longstanding member of CC’s Institutional Practice Innovations and Professional Fulfilment Office. In addition to over a decade of experience as Department Chair, CECM Director, and helping to drive practice transformation organizationally, Dr Sikon has presented nationally on novel ways to view professional development across the career continuum.
Dr Elaine E. Schulte
Elaine E. Schulte, M.D, M.P.H, BCC, FAAP, is Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. She is Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein School of Medicine. She received her coaching certification from the Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University and is a Board Certified Coach. Dr. Schulte directs the CHAM Peer Mentorship Program, a volunteer, longitudinal program created to increase the academic productivity and enhance physician engagement. She also designs and facilitates division and department strategy sessions, provides individual coaching to faculty members, and leads the Department of Paediatrics Well-being Committee.
In addition to her administrative work, Dr. Schulte is a national expert in adoption medicine. She served on the American Academy of Paediatrics Executive Committee of the Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care for many years. Dr. Schulte serves as senior advisor and faculty for both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academic Pediatric Association, in a variety of capacities, including the AAP Young Physician Leadership Alliance and the APA’s Advancing Pediatric Leaders Program. She has given numerous national and international presentations and workshops on adoption, physician leadership, coaching and mentoring, and well-being. She maintains an active general pediatric practice, with special interests in learning disabilities and graduate medical education.
Dr Sarah Dalton
Dr Sarah Dalton is a Paediatric Emergency Physician at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and previous President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sarah has worked in different clinical and leadership roles across NSW over the last 20 years, from regional centres to specialist tertiary units and from community care to acute care retrieval services.
Sarah completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Clinical Leadership and she has held executive leadership roles is several NSW Health entities including the Agency for Clinical Innovation.
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