JAMA Surg. 2021 Jan 1;156(1):50.

Surgical Coaching-It's All About the Relationship (Invited Commentary)

Kratzke, Ian M.; Kapadia, Muneera R.

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Summary

Invited commentary on the 2020 JAMA Surgery article “Optimizing the Implementation of Surgical Coaching Through Feedback From Practicing Surgeons,” describing implementation recommendations from the Ariadne Labs/Harvard Surgical Coaching for Operative Performance Enhancement (SCOPE) program. The authors emphasized the finding that the success of a surgical coaching partnership depends highly on the relationship quality between the surgeon and their coach.