The challenge of knowledge management is to facilitate tacit knowledge sharing (TKS) so that it is extracted into organizational memory. In team environment, trust in crucial to TKS. The road to a trusting relationship is marked by inter-personal understanding and empathic communication between members. Emotional intelligence (EI) as the ability to control one’s and other’s emotions will facili...

BACKGROUND Team-based care has consistently been associated with improved clinical outcomes. However, strategies for promoting and sustaining a team-based approach in family medicine practice are more elusive. METHODS We conducted a longitudinal time series cohort study of 30 primary care providers in seven practices to assess the sequential addition of three different chronic disease managem...

BACKGROUND In 2011 the U.S. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education began limiting first year resident physicians (interns) to shifts of ≤16 consecutive hours. Controversy persists regarding the effectiveness of this policy for reducing errors and accidents while promoting education and patient care. Using a mathematical model of the effects of circadian rhythms and length of time ...

The ability to work effectively in teams has been a key competence for information systems engineers for a long time. Gradually, more attention is being paid to developing this generic competence as part of academic curricula, resulting in two questions: how to best promote team competencies and how to implement team projects successfully. These questions are closely interwoven and need to be l...