Medical career coaching for HIGH-PERFORMING physicians
Reimagine your medical career. Reignite your passion for medicine.
Balance your life and revive joy in your medical career with physician career coaching.
Discover your true priorities and align your actions to your goals
Discover your untapped clinical leadership potential
Gain insights from an experienced fellow physician
Preventing physician burnout starts with introspection
There is little time for reflection in the relentless grind of medical school, residency, and a medical career.
It is easy to sideline an honest career evaluation with so few spare moments in your day.
I am Christine E Lee MD, CPE, PCC, a physician career coach, and I will help you find space to breathe, reflect, and set an intentional course towards your medical career goals.
Individual or group sessions
for any physician at any career stage
Medical career coaching is a powerful tool at any stage of your journey as a physician. Whether working alone or in a group, we can pinpoint your professional goals and define actions that will support them.
Individual medical career coaching
Resident and fellows group career coaching
Early and mid-career physician career coaching
Experienced physician career coaching and legacy establishment
Unlock your potential and explore an aspirational future
From promotions to a happier home life, professional achievements to a healthier work-life integration. You already possess the raw skills to achieve your goals. As your career coach, I can help you harness them.
No matter your aspirations or medical career stage, we can examine your priorities, then set a deliberate course to achieving them.
Unleash your hidden Leadership Skills
As a physician, you’re called to be a leader in your clinical setting. But fostering leadership skills is often overlooked in medical school and ignored in the urgency of daily practice.
Every physician has the potential to become a dynamic leader. In individual or group coaching sessions, we pinpoint your untapped leadership strengths and nurture them.
Four purposeful steps
to an empowering career path
Four purposeful steps to an empowering career path
Work through the four R’s of forging a purposeful path.
REFOCUS
Your awareness of your
existing career.
Re-perspective
Allows you to examine your career from other viewpoints.
REFRAME
Your career in a different context to eliminate unhelpful thoughts.
RE-EVALUATE
Your strengths and your past mistakes to learn lessons and set goals.
Christine E Lee MD
CPE, PCC
As an ophthalmologist and cataract and refractive surgeon with over 20 years of medical expertise, I’ve watched colleagues struggle with careers that are unfulfilling, uninspiring, and unrewarding.
I want to help you navigate a new course for your medical career that feels joyful and empowering. One that satisfies your goals for professional achievement yet celebrates the importance of family and relationships.
Above all, I want to help you carve a career path that honors your integrity, steadfast work ethic, and contribution to the profession.
Kind words from my clients
I’m honored to have helped these exceptional clients achieve a fruitful career path.
“Coaching has allowed me to become more intentional about my life and encouraging others as we assume increasing team leadership. The best part of the coaching was learning how to ask questions to help ourselves, each other, and our colleagues.”
Michelle S
Coaching Client
” Coaching has allowed me to be able to slow down, analyze the internal self prior to reacting /responding to the external environment. It has provided structure in approach when taking care of oneself with caring for others. I believe the best part of coaching is learning to analyze oneself and see a bigger picture of situations.”
Allan L
Coaching Client
“I was introduced to Dr. Lee’s leadership coaching session by a friend who feels Dr. Lee has helped her tremendously. I am a shy and introverted person and I have never wanted to be a leader so I was not sure what I would benefit from these sessions. After just a few sessions with Dr. Lee, I realized that many things I encountered with difficulty, or I had trouble with in daily life could be resolved much easier by changing my thought process. I learnt that leadership does not need to be leading a group of people, it can be just how you can change yourself. I have become a happier person and gained significant amount of positive energy which greatly helps me with my career, social, as well as personal life. Thank you Dr. Lee for all your coaching and I highly recommend Dr. Lee to anyone who wants to change themselves to be a better and happier person.
MW
Coaching Client
“Christine’s guidance throughout this coaching journey has been truly wonderful. She asked thoughtful questions and held great space that allowed me to dig deeper into my own thoughts and motives. I’ve found some of my self-imposed barriers (which I didn’t even really know I was subconsciously feeding) have started to melt away. It’s been an enlightening process of self-discovery and I have a more solidified framework to approach my personal and professional lives! Thanks so much!!!”
Heidi
Coaching Client
“Thank you so much for your coaching! Your coaching molded me to the person who I wanted to be! I am grateful!”
H. Kim, MD
Coaching Client
“Dr. Lee had the keen ability to gently guide me in the process of self-discovery, allowing me to set my own personal goals. She didn’t impose a set agenda, instead she asked thoughtful questions and listened intently to my answers, becoming a real sounding board. In the short amount of time, she allowed space so that I could think deeper and uncover my own steps towards change. This is true empowerment, wow!”
Esther L
Coaching Client
“I would like to wholeheartedly thank Dr. Lee for her coaching sessions. I would highly recommend her as a valuable resource. My journey would have been less stressful and more enjoyable had I known earlier what I learned from Dr. Lee. Especially younger physicians, and even older ones like myself, will benefit from her coaching.”
B.L.
Coaching Client
“I really enjoyed the time of reflection and was able to take away pearls of wisdom on prioritization. What struck me the most was about finding my inspiration – even on the past events/accomplishments — why I do the things I do. I think reflecting and then verbalizing them helped shift my focus and find the true motives that re-energized me!”
R.D.
Coaching Client
“I have never talked to a coach before so I wasn’t sure what to expect. It was surprisingly really great. It’s helpful to talk to someone in a similar field about work/life balance. Christine Lee was very insightful. I look forward to more sessions with her!”
Young woman faculty at Baylor College of Medicine
Coaching Client
How We'll Work Together
Take The First Step To A Fulfilling Medical Career
Where will your career be 6 months from now? If you want it to look different, start by booking a time to talk.
DISCOVERY CALL
Before we begin working together, we’ll book a 15-minute call to ensure we’re a good fit. After that, you can choose to schedule sessions weekly or biweekly, in person or via Zoom.
START EXPLORING
Each 45-minute session will work to unlock your motivation for career coaching. We’ll define your goals and align them with intentional actions.
Create Momentum
Each session will build upon the previous week’s discussions and the “homework” you do between appointments. Average coaching engagements are 6-9 months.