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Understanding the evidence base for leadership coaching for medical doctors: a rapid scoping review.

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Objective: The objective of this rapid scoping review is to understand the volume and type of evidence in relation to leadership coaching for doctors.

Introduction: Coaching is established as an effective intervention to support personal and professional development, with a rapidly growing evidence base in a wide range of contexts for coaching and for several areas of coaching subspecialisation. Whilst coaching is known to be an effective element within medical leadership development research, there is a lack of clarity into the impact of leadership coaching for or by doctors in the form of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, i.e., the higher level in the hierarchy of research evidence. This scoping review aims to fill this gap by: documenting the current evidence-base relating to leadership coaching for or by doctors; assessing the extent to which this evidence-base meets internationally recognised definitions and core competencies of coaching; examining whether there is any evidence for effectiveness relating to leadership coaching for doctors sufficient to merit a systematic review; and by making recommendations for future research in this area.

Inclusion criteria: The concept of interest for this review is the purposeful use of coaching competencies, skills and or behaviours in the context of medical leadership development. The following forms of coaching only will be included in this review: 1:1 executive, business, workplace, professional or leadership coaching.

The quality of the coaching interventions will be assessed as to whether they meet one or more of the internationally recognised definitions and core competencies of coaching described by either European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC, 22), the International Coaching Federation (ICF, 23), or the British Psychological Society Standards for Coaching Psychology (BPS, 24).


Methods: the following information sources will be searched: Medline, Embase, and APA PsycInfo. The dates include from 1 January 1993 until 3 April 2024, in English language only. References of included reviews will also be checked in both forward and backward directions.

Study selection, data extraction, analysis of the evidence and presentation of the results will be conducted in line with JBI guidelines(1) wherever possible: however this is a rapid scoping review and some pragmatic decisions will be made. Data will be synthesised descriptively and thematically, charting the evidence and identifying data gaps.

The Scoping Review will be used to inform future research in this area.