Teamwork: is it possible to create expert medical teams based on professional experts?
Keywords:
PATIENT CARE TEAM, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION, TRAINING
Abstract
Multidisciplinary teamwork increases patient safety; minimizes doctors’ mistakes, improves satisfaction and performance of the health team and it probably avoids expenses arising from malpractice and complications. However, implementing medical work in teams is complex and seems to be a utopia, especially in countries with poor health resources. Despite efforts geared to changing the medical healthcare services paradigm, the latter is still grounded on the acquisition of individual knowledge rather than on collective interaction. Developing the skills needed to work in teams is not part of the medical students’ syllabi in our country. This article has found evidence on the advantages of team work in indexed literature (PUBMED-MEDLINE Y LATININDEX. We aim to raise awareness on this issue so that this form of work is adopted in Uruguay.
“Utopia lies in the horizon, so If I take 10 steps forward it will move 10 steps forward as well; and if I take 20 steps, so it will. No matter how much I move forward, I will never get to it. So, what purpose does utopia serve? Precisely that one. It makes me walk.
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(9) Manser T, Harrison TK, Gaba DM, Howard SK. Coordination patterns related to high clinical performance in a simulated anesthetic crisis. Anesth Analg 2009; 108(5):1606-15.
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(23) Silva P, Garganta J, Araújo D, Davids K, Aguiar P. Shared knowledge or shared affordances? Insights from an ecological dynamics approach to team coordination in sports. Sports Med 2013; 43(9):765-72.
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(25) Rutherford JS, Flin R, Mitchell L. Non-technical skills of anaesthetic assistants in the perioperative period: a literature review. Br J Anaesth 2012; 109(1):27-31.
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(27) Sexton JB, Thomas EJ, Helmreich RL. Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys. BMJ 2000; 320(7237):745-9.
(28) Nicksa GA, Anderson C, Fidler R, Stewart L. Innovative approach using interprofessional simulation to educate surgical residents in technical and nontechnical skills in high-risk clinical scenarios. JAMA Surg 2015; 150(3):201-7.
(29) Jacobs JP, Wernovsky G, Cooper DS, Karl TR. Principles of shared decision-making within teams. Cardiol Young 2015; 25(8):1631-6.
(30) Rando K, Harguindeguy M, Leites A, Ettlin A, González S, Scalone P, et al. Indicadores de calidad en cirugía hepática: influencia del trabajo en equipo multidisciplinario y del “efecto centro”. Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam 2010; 40(1):10-21.
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2016-03-31
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Rando Huluk AEK. Teamwork: is it possible to create expert medical teams based on professional experts?. Rev. Méd. Urug. [Internet]. 2016Mar.31 [cited 2024Dec.29];32(1):59-7. Available from: http://www2.rmu.org.uy/ojsrmu311/index.php/rmu/article/view/187
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