title: Using scripted video to assess interdisciplinary team effectiveness training outcomes.
abstract: As part of the Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Program funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, the authors of this article worked to create an instrument, the Trainee Test of Team Dynamics, to assess health care trainees' understanding of team dynamics. The Trainee Test of Team Dynamics is a five-question written test designed to capture GITT trainees' knowledge of team process and skills in addressing conflict that is administered after watching a five-minute videotape of a simulated interdisciplinary health care team meeting. The test was created to measure health professions students' abilities to recognize effective geriatric health care teams, to respond to effective and ineffective team behaviors, and to determine whether or not the team meeting achieved its purpose: to meet the patient's needs for an interdisciplinary care plan. Scripts and test items developed and tested by practitioners in social work, medicine, public health, nursing and others assured a product that compensated for differences in educational level and occupation, yet captured accurate and appropriate responses. The results reported here include an analysis of 740 trainees' baseline responses from the multi-site educational programs to determine the construct validity of the new measure.
authors.affiliation: Training Academy on Aging, Florida Policy Exchange Center on Aging, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hyer
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: Judith L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Whitelaw
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Flaherty
authors.forename: Lois
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Halstead
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fulmer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003142:Communication; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000592:standards*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D014743:Videotape Recording / Q000706:statistics & numerical data