Groups don't become teams because that is what someone calls them. Nor do teamwork values by themselves ensure team performance. So what is a team? How can managers know when the team option makes sense and what they can do to ensure team success? In this article, drawn from their recent book The Wisdom of Teams, McKinsey partners Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith answer these questions and outl...

Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

Background: clinical education with patient-focused learning is very important in medical education. Therefore, it is very essential to select an appropriate education method. The current study was conducted to analyze the impact of simultaneous presentation of medical stager and inter in seminars provided with a pre-organizer strategy and from the students' perspective (2012-2013).  Methods: t...

in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known about the organisation and delivery of health services and what is actually done in practice. As a consequence, there is growing interest in alternative models of knowledge creation and mobilisation, o...

Setting up and running a Clinical Nutritional Support Team can be challenging and is time consuming. Team members have to be motivated, committed and persistent. High quality working relationships are fundamentally important within the team, between teams and with other healthcare professionals. Good communication, careful planning, sensitive implementation and robust monitoring are the corners...

Although potentially beneficial, task conflict may threaten teams because it often leads to relationship conflict. Prior research has identified a set of interpersonal factors (e.g., team communication, team trust) that help attenuate this association. The purpose of this article is to provide an alternative perspective that focuses on the moderating role of performancerelated factors (i.e., pe...

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...