Barnabas Tobi Alayande, Callum Forbes, Paul Kingpriest, Adeyinka Adejumo, Wendy Williams, Felix Wina, Christian Agbo Agbo, Bamidele Omolabake, Abebe Bekele, Bashiru O Ismaila, Fiona Kerray, Augustine Sule, Egide Abahuje, Jamie M Robertson, Steven Yule, Robert Riviello, Mercy Isichei
INTRODUCTION: Non-technical skills (NTS) including communication, teamwork, leadership, situational awareness, and decision making, are essential for enhancing surgical safety. Often perceived as tangential soft skills, NTS are many times not included in formal medical education curricula or continuing medical professional development. We aimed to explore exposure of interprofessional teams in North-Central Nigeria to NTS and ascertain perceived facilitators and barriers to interprofessional training in these skills to enhance surgical safety and inform design of a relevant contextualized curriculum...
May 16, 2024: BMC Medical Education