Background. This review examines the surgical and psychological literature on surgeons’ intraoperative non-technical skills. These are the critical cognitive and interpersonal skills that complement surgeons’ technical abilities. The objectives of this paper are (1) to identify the non-technical skills required by surgeons in the operating room and (2) assess the behavioral marker systems that ...

Purpose Despite the institutional calls to include development of non-technical skills as objectives in accounting curriculum and attempts do so, a gap between level exhibited by graduates those needed succeed professional is still perceived. One possible causes could be students' overconfidence, defined very optimistic assessment their own abilities. The main objective paper assess existence o...

BACKGROUND Analyses of adverse events in surgery reveal that many underlying causes are behavioural, such as communication failure, rather than technical. Non-technical (i.e. cognitive and interpersonal) skills are not addressed explicitly in surgical training. However, surgeons need to demonstrate these skills, which underpin their technical excellence, to maximise patient safety in the operat...