Teamwork is recognized as an important skill for engineering and computer science students. Industry strongly advocates inclusion of teamwork in the curriculum and teamwork is a requirement for ABET accreditation. Unfortunately most engineering and computer science programs fail to address teamwork as something that needs to be taught. It is usually expected that students should learn teamwork ...

AIMS/BACKGROUND This review examines current research on teamwork in highly dynamic domains of healthcare such as operating rooms, intensive care, emergency medicine, or trauma and resuscitation teams with a focus on aspects relevant to the quality and safety of patient care. RESULTS Evidence from three main areas of research supports the relationship between teamwork and patient safety: (1) ...

background: in regard to enhancement of efficiency and productivity of an organization in terms of teamwork, it is necessary to shift to team-centered approach for increasing confidence in health care systems. therefore it is needed to assess effect of the academic training on students' viewpoint in team working. methods: this was a cross-sectional study and was done in kurdistan universit...

BACKGROUND Teamwork is a 'soft skill' employability competence desired by employers. Poor teamwork skills in healthcare have an impact on adverse outcomes. Teamwork skills are rarely the focus of teaching and assessment in undergraduate courses. The TeamUP Rubric is a tool used to teach and evaluate undergraduate students' teamwork skills. Students also use the rubric to give anonymised peer fe...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by conflicts in agents’ beliefs, plans and actions. Despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolutionhas remained largely unaddressed. This paper presents CONSA, a system we are developing to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. CONSA ...

In a complex, dynamic multi-agent setting, coherent team actions are often jeopardized by conflicts in agents’ beliefs, plans and actions. Despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolution has remained largely unaddressed. This paper presents a system called CONSA, to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. The key insight ...

Multi-agent teamwork is a critical capability in a large number of applications. Yet, despite the considerable progress in teamwork research, the challenge of intra-team conflict resolution has remained largely unaddressed. This chapter presents a system called CONSA, to resolve conflicts using argumentation-based negotiations. The key insight in CONSA(COllaborative Negotiation System based on ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of a low-resource-demand, easily disseminated computer-based teamwork process training intervention on teamwork behaviors and patient care performance in code teams. DESIGN A randomized comparison trial of computer-based teamwork training versus placebo training was conducted from August 2010 through March 2011. SETTING This study was conducted at the simu...

Teamwork is important in the operating room. Team members rely on each other’s expertise for successful task completion. Because of lunch and change of shift breaks, handoffs occur frequently, but little is known about their effect on team performance, or the team’s awareness of these changes. We performed a 360 degree evaluation of the effect of operating room handoffs on teamwork, stress, and...

background: interprofessional teamwork is considered as the key to improve the quality of patient management in critical settings such as trauma emergency departments, but it is not fully conceptualized in these areas to guide practice. the aim of this article is to explore interprofessional teamwork and its improvement strategies in trauma emergency departments. materials and methods: particip...