The difficulties of coaching doctors and why feedback can often go wrong – an interview with Christopher John Watling

17/02/2023 20 min
The difficulties of coaching doctors and why feedback can often go wrong – an interview with Christopher John Watling

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Chris Watling is a medical education researcher at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, Canada. Trained as a neurologist, he embarked on a mid-career journey of graduate work and professional development to create the foundation for a program of research and scholarship in education.  As a researcher, Chris studies why doctors are difficult to coach, why feedback frequently misses the mark, and why professional culture so often undermines the best-laid curriculum plans. In this episode of the KIPRIME podcast, Chris talks more about these areas of research and about his favourite professional activity, teaching (and writing about) academic writing.   

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