Training faculty in nontechnical skill assessment: National guidelines on program requirements

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 370-375

  Hull, Louise ^a   Arora, Sonal ^a   Symons, Nicholas R A ^a   Jalil, Rozh ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a   Vincent, Charles ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assessment; education; faculty; nontechnical skills; operating room; surgery; teamwork; train the trainers; training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DELPHI STUDY; FACULTY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURGICAL TRAINING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; GENERAL SURGERY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84880571911     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318279560b     Document Type: Article

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