AIM The aim of the study reported here was to address the need to assess and train teamwork and non-technical skills in the context of Resuscitation. Specifically, we sought to develop a tool that is feasible to use and psychometrically sound to assess team behaviours during cardiac arrest resuscitation attempts. METHODS To ensure validity, reliability, and feasibility, the Observational Skil...

BACKGROUND Assessment centres are an accepted method of recruitment in industry and are gaining popularity within medicine. We describe the development and validation of a selection centre for recruitment to speciality training in anaesthesia based on an assessment centre model incorporating the rating of candidate's non-technical skills. METHODS Expert consensus identified non-technical skil...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to define the components of a skilled low-cavity non-rotational vacuum delivery (occiput anterior, vertex at station +2 or below and less than 45-degree rotation from midline) and to facilitate the transfer of skills from expert to trainee obstetricians. DESIGN Qualitative study using interviews and video recordings. SETTING Two university teachi...

The provision of health services implicitly involves an emotional load linked to the specific task / service, which, if extended for long periods time, falls on operators, placing them in a burn-out risk. Various theories and empirical studies (Mayo, 1933; Maslow, 1943; Herzberg, 1959; Vroom, 1964; Alderfer, 1969; Fontana, 1997; McClellant, 1985) reveal how "motivated" work performances generat...

The accepted methodologies for construction engineering and management education have long recognized that students need to learn a combination of technical and non-technical competencies. Educators then develop their curricula to facilitate learning of these competencies and then assess the students’ understanding. For a competency such as cost estimating, these tasks can be accomplished throu...