Serendipity, Flexibility, Calling and Commitment: How Clinicians Navigate the Path to Clinician-Coach
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Lister, Victoria
Wong, Lee Yung
Elder, Elizabeth
Wilson, Samuel
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Objective To explore the practice-related changes that occur as emergency physicians contemplate and navigate the path from clinician to clinician-coach.
Methods Participants were interviewed about how they made sense of their coaching roles and coaching practice within the emergency department.
Results A combination of inductive and deductive qualitative analytic approaches explored the initiation and evolution of the coaching practices of emergency medicine (EM) physicians as they navigated the path from clinician to clinician-coach. Enablers of and barriers to the initiation and development of coaching practices were identified, along with four overarching experiential qualities—serendipity, calling, flexibility, and commitment—that attend and support the process of becoming and being a clinician.
Conclusions The stages of practice evolution and the notions of serendipity, calling, flexibility, and commitment offer a framework for understanding how EM physicians successfully embark on and navigate the path from clinician to clinician-coach.
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Emergency Medicine Australasia
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37
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© 2025 The Author(s). Emergency Medicine Australasia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Rixon, A; Lister, V; Wong, LY; Elder, E; Wilson, S, Serendipity, Flexibility, Calling and Commitment: How Clinicians Navigate the Path to Clinician-Coach, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2025, 37 (4), pp. e70122