Institutions that strengthen mutual trust, teamwork, role clarity, and appropriate incentives are needed.
According to recommendations for teaching communication in medicine, preferred didactic methods should be interactive, focussing on group discussion, teamwork, role-play and patient exposure [ 16].
We suggest that strategies targeting senior staff to enhance their performance in their roles, particularly in the training and teamwork role-modeling of the transitory junior workforce, are important for the development and maintenance of a high quality and safe maternity service.
This feedback indicated that the vast majority of the students had an overall positive experience of the laboratory course, as it provided them with the opportunity of teamwork, leadership role, the spirit of industrial experience, and the ability to develop skills related to heat exchanger calculations.
The structured functional assessment method was introduced at a one-day workshop including teamwork and role-playing.
In total, there were eight scale scores (supervisor social support; co-worker support; teamwork; communication; role clarity; decision latitude; organization/staff relations; patient/resident care).
Overall, two-thirds of students' projects addressed in some form how dissection taught them not only anatomy, but also the importance of teamwork, good role-modeling, and a deepening understanding that medicine is a humane calling rather than a technical career.
While intellectual rigour must remain the cornerstone of a research intensive degree, students should also gain experience in teamwork and leadership roles.
Factors involved in teamwork include designating roles, determining the timing of activities, coordinating action, and managing interpersonal factors such as decision making and conflict resolution [ 18].
This review considers the impact of error in health care; the role of anaesthetists in promoting simulation-based education for the development of clinical skills and improved teamwork; and their role in disseminating human factors and quality improvement science to enhance safety in the clinical workplace.
