Regional Teamwork Key to Successful COVID-19 Response

Capella, Jeannette

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.06.007

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“…Effective multidisciplinary teams are critical to the success of healthcare systems. For example, the COVID‐19 pandemic has demonstrated that collaboration, communication and teamwork are key to managing quickly evolving situations [10,11]. In addition, aptitude in teamwork has been shown to be a predictor of ability in clinical reasoning [12] and can enhance the retention of medical knowledge [13].…”

Section: Teamwork In Health Care and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Everyone is trying to outcompete each other’: a qualitative study of medical student attitudes to a novel peer‐assessed undergraduate teamwork module

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The centrality of teamwork in ensuring the effective functioning of institutions across all sectors is undeniable. However, embedding teamwork into higher education has been hampered due to a range of deeply entrenched practices associated broadly with the foregrounding of knowledge, beliefs about the place of skill training and routines of assessment. As a result, despite an urgent need to address teamwork, little progress has been made with respect to progressing teamwork education. We have designed and evaluated a novel teamwork module delivered to fourth‐year undergraduate medical students involving placements, a cocreated piece of work, reflection and summative peer assessment. This paper aimed to investigate whether the module increased students’ insight into teamwork, including their own skill development, and whether their perceptions of teamwork changed. Throughout the evaluation, students played a key role, with four final‐year medical students working alongside others in the multidisciplinary project team. Five distinct themes emerged from our in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews: (a) importance and meaning; (b) insight into skill development; (c) transferability; (d) peer assessment; and (e) resistance to teamwork education. Themes had positive and negative components, and student perceptions changed in multiple ways after experiencing a longitudinal educational opportunity to develop their teamwork skills. Before practice, students focused on superficial explanations and on where they might improve. In contrast, after practice, students conveyed deeper insights, contextualisation, focus on how they might improve, and shared structured reflection.

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Section: Teamwork In Health Care and Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

‘Everyone is trying to outcompete each other’: a qualitative study of medical student attitudes to a novel peer‐assessed undergraduate teamwork module

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“…The RMOCs in western Washington state and other areas have been successfully used to coordinate the health system's pandemic response. (58,59) Unfortunately many parts of the US lack such a well-integrated system resource as the RMOC.…”

Section: Trauma Systems Responsesmentioning

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The Acute Care Surgeon in Pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19

Liepert

Doucet

2021

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The pandemic in 2020 has had economic, health, social, and cultural impacts on the entire world's population. At the time of writing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had infected over 65 million people causing 1.5 million deaths with ongoing exponential growth in case numbers in many parts of the world. The impact of surgical care delivery has been profound. Initial orders to cancel elective surgery preserved inadequate stockpiles of personal protective equipment and prevented exposures of surgical patients to asymptomatic COVID-19 infected persons in the face of insufficient testing. However, this led to a backlog of elective surgery. There were also delays in presentation of acute surgical conditions, probably due to patient fears of contracting COVID-19 at hospitals. Surgeons were required to develop processes such as creation of dedicated COVID-19 operating rooms to prevent nosocomial spread of the disease and infection of the operating room team. Surgeons have provided surgical and critical care to COVID-19 patients during the current pandemic despite initial shortages of ventilators, PPE and information. Surgeons are now successfully managing acute surgical complications of COVID-19 as well as COVID-19 patients presenting with trauma and non-COVID-19 related acute surgical conditions, despite early reports of poor outcomes. Lessons learned included issues in preparation, training, planning, provider wellness, burnout, surgical disparities, testing, PPE, operating rooms, cancellations of elective surgery, regional coordination, and information technology. Surgeons should be now ready to engage in advocacy efforts to ensure that the next pandemic can be better handled by the healthcare system.

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