BACKGROUND Increased attention on collaboration and teamwork competency development in medical education has raised the need for valid and reliable approaches to the assessment of collaboration competencies in post-graduate medical education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability of a modified Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) in a multi-source feedback...

In 2008, the faculty of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis designed a Master of Public Health program centered on transdisciplinary problem solving in public health. We have described the rationale for our approach, guiding principles and pedagogy for the program, and specific transdisciplinary competencies students acquire. We have explained how transdisciplinary content ha...

OBJECTIVES In undergraduate medical education, the topics of errors in medicine and patient safety are under-represented. The aim of this study was to explore undergraduate medical students' behavioural intentions when confronted with an error. DESIGN A qualitative case vignette survey was conducted including one of six randomly distributed case scenarios in which a hypothetical but realistic...

Software professionals often face trouble when developing software products as it is a highly dynamic, knowledge-intensive complex process. The success of the software process heavily depends on the people involved, among other factors, making their education and training an interesting topic for research. The purpose of this study is to structure and characterize the state of the practice on s...