Transforming a team of experts into an expert team

How to turn a team of experts into an expert medical team: guidance from the aviation and military communities.

There is no question that interdisciplinary teams are becoming ubiquitous in healthcare. It is also true that experts do not necessarily combine to make an expert team. However when teams work well they can serve as adaptive systems that allow organisations to mitigate errors within complex domains, thereby increasing safety. The medical community has begun to recognise the importance of teams ...

European POPs Expert Team

Transforming a clinical clerkship with team learning.

BACKGROUND Team learning, an innovative educational method combining interactive small group learning with expert-based content delivery, was introduced into our psychiatry clerkship in 2002. The main goal was to increase classroom engagement and improve educational outcomes. DESCRIPTION Eight of 16 lectures were replaced with team learning activities, including prerequisite readings, readine...

Introducing Personality into Team Dynamics

If autonomous agents interact with people, they should achieve the suspension of disbelief in order to offer a good interaction experience to users. To achieve this it is important that the agents’ behaviours are consistent with a given personality since people have a tendency to attribute personality to interactive artifacts. The concept of personality is also useful to create diversity in mul...

Managing Virtual Product Development team: A Review

Although there are many potential benefits associated with the use of virtual product development teams, exploiting these benefits requires an appropriate management. Managing virtual product development team is a critical issue as many of these teams fail to accomplish their goals. Review of previous literature shows that body of knowledge in managing virtual product development teams is fragm...