SurgeonMasters.com – SurgeonMasters is pleased to welcome Carla Smith, MD, to the SurgeonMasters coach lineup. Dr. Smith completed her training with SurgeonMasters acquiring over 60 hours of coach training experience, and is earning hours to become an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Dr. Smith’s coaching specialties include Career Transitions (or thoughts of transitions), Leadership Challenges, Peer Support.
“Having benefited from coaching myself, it has become a way to give back and to help support and encourage other surgeons. I find it a privilege and honor to share in others journeys and to help to provide perspective and positive growth opportunities.”
-Carla Smith, MD, Surgeon Coach
“While Carla and I are not related, we have known each other professionally for many years. She has so much knowledge and experience in so many domains. Now she possesses an ever-expanding set of skills that will be unleashed on the medical profession to bring positive change world-wide through coaching.”
-Jeffrey M. Smith, MD, FACS, ACC, SurgeonMasters CEO
About Carla Smith, MD
Carla is a fellowship-trained orthopedic trauma surgeon. She has owned a private practice and worked for hospital systems as a trauma surgicalist in orthopedics. One of her coaching interests is job transitions, and her biggest goal is to help other surgeons navigate changes in their personal and professional lives.
Having served as Chair of the Department of Surgery at a very large urban hospital, she saw firsthand how adverse events and lack of collegiality impact physicians. She views peer support and coaching toward physician empowerment as important ways to give back to her community and foster physician longevity.
Coaching Specialty: Early Career Experience, Minority and Women Physician/Surgeon Experience, Burnout, Career Transitions
About SurgeonMasters
Our mission at SurgeonMasters is to empower more surgeons around the world to make positive and lasting improvements in their lives. We achieve this through surgeon-to-surgeon coaching and coaching training programs designed to support surgeons’ personal and professional wellness.
SurgeonMasters Physician Coach Training is a 60-hour International Coaching Federation accredited professional coaching program teaching the fundamentals of physician coaching, critical competencies, and much more.
Contact Paul Hiller at Team@SurgeonMasters.com to get involved.