Assessing Team Leadership in Emergency Medicine: The Milestones and Beyond.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Team leadership is a critical skill for emergency medicine physicians that directly affects team performance and the quality of patient care. There exists a robust body of team science research supporting team leadership conceptual models and behavioral skill sets. However, to date, this work has not been widely incorporated into health care team leadership education.

Objective

This narrative review has 3 aims: (1) to synthesize the team science literature and to translate important concepts and models to health care team leadership; (2) to describe how team leadership is currently represented in the health care literature and in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestones for emergency medicine; and (3) to propose a novel, evidence-based f

SUBMITTER: Rosenman ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936849 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature