Macrosystems science strives to integrate patterns and processes that span regional continental scales. The scope of such research often necessitates the involvement large interdisciplinary and/or multi-institutional teams composed scientists across a range career stages, diversity requires researchers hone both technical interpersonal skills. We surveyed participants in macrosystems projects f...

INTRODUCTION Errors in surgery often stem from failure related to non-technical skills such as communication and teamwork. Tools for training and assessment of non-technical skills are needed to ensure safe surgery. The aim of this study was to customize the Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) rating system for Danish general surgeons. MATERIAL AND METHODS Eight group interviews were co...

Transplant surgery is a demanding field in which the technical skills of surgeon correlates with patient outcomes. As such, there potential for simulation-based training to play an important role skill acquisition. This study provides systematic assessment current literature regarding use simulation improve transplantation. Data were collected by performing electronic search PubMed and Scopus d...

BACKGROUND There is little research on large-scale complex health care simulations designed to facilitate student learning of non-technical skills in a team-working environment. We evaluated the acceptability and effectiveness of a novel natural disaster simulation that enabled medical students to demonstrate their achievement of the non-technical skills of collaboration, negotiation and commun...

UNLABELLED SUMMARY/BACKGROUND: Variations in technical performance in surgery are known to exist but are poorly understood. Gaining an appreciation of these differences may have implications for technical skills training, assessment, and selection. Investigators attempting to correlate technical skill with visuospatial or perceptual tests have failed to identify surrogate markers of surgical ap...

BACKGROUND Healthcare increasingly recognises and focusses on the phenomena of 'safe practice' and 'patient safety.' Success with non-technical skills (NTS) training in other industries has led to widespread transposition to healthcare education, with communication and teamwork skills central to NTS frameworks. OBJECTIVE This study set out to identify how the context of interprofessional simu...