Clinical research coaching and mentoring is a personal, one-on-one relationship between a more experienced scientist and a scientist-in-the-making. Effective coaching and mentoring is critical to help early career investigators and/or trial naïve research sites become successful, independent researchers/research sites.
Clinical research coaching is of critical importance to increase the capacity and number of clinical researchers and to enhance scientific productivity and to meet the needs of stakeholders. The availability and quality of coaching lead to career commitment and satisfaction, confidence in research skills, success in grant acquisition and subsequent provision of mentoring a...