Healthcare is increasingly a team-based endeavor, as seen in clinical practice, education, research, and administration. Over the years, we’ve had the good fortune to engage with, advise, educate, and learn from healthcare professionals and researchers at institutions such as Cedars-Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Montefiore, MD Anderson, UT Southwestern, and UTHealth.
A common theme in our work is to apply what is known about the science of teamwork (“the evidence-base”) to challenges faced by teams (“current reality”). We typically partner closely with healthcare providers, in-house researchers, and faculty to ensure our work is practical and actionable.
In an effort to disseminate what we and our colleagues have learned we often publish our findings in medical journals. Below are five articles that may be of interest to anyone who engages in or supports teamwork in healthcare.
| Article Title | Description |
| From stable teamwork to dynamic teaming in the ambulatory care diagnostic process (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11839144/) | Clarifies the role of dynamic teaming in the diagnostic process, highlights common risks, and offers recommendations for providers and patients. |
| The debrief imperative: building teaming competencies and team effectiveness (https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/32/3/125.long) | Highlights the difference between team debriefs in educational and clinical settings and offers debriefing guidelines for both. |
| Holistic strategy for promoting effective handoffs (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37200171/) | Describes a holistic approach and provides recommendations for ensuring high-quality patient handoffs throughout a healthcare system. |
| Bringing team science to the ambulatory diagnostic process: how do patients and clinicians develop shared mental models? (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11839146/) | Offers an evidence-based five-factor model for sustaining shared cognitions in ambulatory diagnosis, with an emphasis on the role of patients. |
| Team FIRST framework: Identifying core teamwork competencies critical to interprofessional healthcare curricula (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37250989/) | Describes an innovative effort to develop teamwork competencies in undergraduate med school and healthcare at UTSW. |