Learning Shifts of Clinicians Who Become Clinician‐Coaches: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Emergency Physicians
Griffith University; Austin Health; Gold Coast Health; Swinburne University of Technology
How they used Delve
A team at Griffith University used Delve to manage, organize and analyze twenty interviews with Australian emergency physicians who work as clinician-coaches, coding them with Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis.
“DelveTool (https://delvetool.com) was used to support data management, organisation and analysis.”
- Field
- emergency medicine / clinician coaching and leadership
- Data
- One-on-one semi-structured interviews with twenty emergency physicians who self-identified as clinician-coaches, conducted online between May and August 2024
- Approach
- Braun and Clarke's six-step reflexive thematic analysis, with three researchers coding individually then collaboratively and a fourth providing an outsider reading
- Data types
- Interviews
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To explore how emergency physicians experience and sustain the shift from clinicians to clinician-coaches. METHODS: Participants were interviewed about how they made sense of their coaching roles and coaching practice within the emergency department. RESULTS: Using reflexive thematic analysis, five themes were developed that pertain to the key learning shifts that characterised their journey from clinician to clinician-coach. These involved a shift from problem-solving to possibility-finding; from authority to partnership; from certainty to curiosity; from expertise to humility; and from doing to being. CONCLUSIONS: Fostering a supportive environment for these five shifts could facilitate the transformations in identity and practice necessary for clinicians to become clinician-coaches.
Citation
Andrew Rixon, Victoria Lister, Lee Yung Wong, Elizabeth Elder, Samuel Wilson (2025). Learning Shifts of Clinicians Who Become Clinician‐Coaches: An Exploratory Qualitative Study of Emergency Physicians. Emergency Medicine Australasia. https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.70076