Table 1 Overview of M1 Coaching Program

1. Vision and Goals, Group Format (10 per group, 4 groups, 90 min/group)

• Articulate and clarify long term career vision

• Create short- term goals to overcome academic challenges

• Access goals when needed

• Maintain prominence of goals in daily activities and long term planning

• Apply goals to daily planning

2. Visioning and goals, 60 min individual session

• Build relationship with student

• Identify personal strengths and values

• Break goals down into attainable steps

• Create action plan for goals

• Identify and anticipate individual barriers, strategies to overcome

3. Managing stressors, Group format (10 per group, 4 groups, 60 min/group)

• Stressors common to all participants

• Reframing negative thinking

• Chunking and scheduling to improve time management

• How to make decisions

• Supporting personal confidence

• Rebounding from failures, real or perceived

4. Managing stressors, 60 min individual session

• Conserving energy

• Identifying and approaching individual’s negative thinking

• Individual application of decision-making and prioritization tools

• Application of techniques throughout medical school career