Specific to healthcare

Overcoming Challenges to Teamwork in Healthcare

This article introduces a comprehensive framework for team effectiveness. It identifies common challenges to teamwork in health-care settings and shares...

How Psychologists can Help Protect Health Care Teams

An article that discusses stress, strain, and teamwork and describes how psychological research can help build resilience in overworked health-care...

Trainees’ Perceptions of Being Allowed to Fail in Clinical Training: A Sense-Making Model

This article explores trainees’ awareness and their experience of failure and allowed failure. Interviews with post-graduate trainees confirm that they...

Creating Psychologically Safe Learning Environments to Counter Perfectionism in Medicine

This article shares resources about perfectionism and impostor syndrome to help create psychologically safe environments where medical students can learn...

Whatever You Cut, I Can Fix It: Clinical Supervisors’ Interview Accounts of Allowing Trainee Failure While Guarding Patient Safety

This article describes how learning in the medical field is in delicate balance with safety as faculty supervisors allow trainees...

Teams, Tribes and Patient Safety: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Teamwork in Healthcare

An article that proposes a seven-step plan to overcome the barriers to effective team communication, which incorporates educational, psychological, and...

Intra- and Interprofessional Practices through Fresh Eyes: A Qualitative Analysis of Medical Students’ Early Workplace Experiences

This article identifies a need to evaluate and respond to what students are learning about collaborative practice during clinical placements....

PGME Information Sheet: Hidden Curriculum

An information sheet with an overview of the hidden curriculum, including its distinctions from the formal curriculum, its impacts and...

Crucial Conversations: An Interprofessional Learning Opportunity for Senior Healthcare Students

This article evaluates Crucial Conversations as a learning method for fostering interprofessional collaboration in pre-licensure senior health-care students and empowering...

‘Get the DNR’: Residents’ Perceptions of Goals of Care Conversations Before and After an E-Learning Module

An article exploring residents’ experiences with an online learning module that teaches a patient-centred approach to goals-of-care conversations. It also...