Background Simulation-based training used to train healthcare teams' skills and improve
clinical practice has evolved in recent decades. While it is evident that technical skills …

Objective Development of nontechnical skills for surgeons has been recognized as an
important factor in surgical care. Training tools for this specific domain are being created and …

Background The complexity of the operating room requires a surgeon to have both technical
ability and an array of nontechnical skills. The emphasis on technical skills during surgical …

Effective interprofessional teamwork and communication are integral to patient safety. The
Institute of Medicine highlighted the effect of poor communication on deleterious healthcare …

Background Surgeons' non-technical skills are an important part of surgical performance
and surgical education. The most widely adopted assessment tool is the Non-Technical …

Background Deficiencies in non-technical skills (NTS) have been increasingly implicated in
avoidable operating theatre errors. Accordingly, this study sought to characterize the impact …

Background Healthcare systems invest in leadership development of surgeons, surgical
trainees, and teams. However, there is no agreement on how interventions should be …

Background To critically appraise the development and measurement properties, including
sensibility, reliability, and validity of the Non-Technical Skills of Surgeons (NOTSS) system …

We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of educational
interventions on health care professionals' situation awareness (SA). We searched …

Background: This randomized controlled trial compared the efficacy of virtual-reality (VR)
simulator training and surgical training on live pigs to explore the most effective and …