UCSF Competency Coaching Program (CCP)

The Competency Coaching Program (CCP) offers high-quality coaching for residents and fellows struggling to attain required skills or behaviors in their training programs. This is often referred to as "remediation coaching."

Most remediation coaching is done by program leaders and trainees' advisors, but this can often create conflicts for trainees, and the literature on remediation strongly recommends separating the coaching role from any assessment role. Additionally, many programs do not have faculty with training and expertise in remediation. For these reasons, the CCP offers 1:1 coaching for struggling trainees with trained, experienced faculty coaches from across departments, with the commitment that trainees will never be paired with someone who is in a position to assess, interview, or otherwise be in a conflict-of-interest role for them. 

We provide coaching across domains, including communication, study skills, professionalism, and more. We are unable to coach around specific technical skills (this is best done by an advisor within your specialty), but most other domains are amenable to coaching from faculty outside the specialty; expertise in remediation is more important than expertise in the clinical field.

At present, referrals come from the program leaders (rather than from trainees, though we would consider this on a case-by-case basis). In order to support the faculty who do this important work, we do charge a fee for enrollment.

Please contact Lynnea Mills (lynnea.mills@ucsf.edu) if you'd like more information about the program or wish to discuss enrollment.