title: An innovative team collaboration assessment tool for a quality improvement curriculum.
abstract: The success of quality improvement (QI) initiatives is significantly dependent on the effective functioning of the team responsible for the project. To our knowledge, there is no published literature on performance-based team assessment tools in the context of a QI curriculum. This study demonstrates the validity, feasibility, and acceptability of an objective structured clinical examination station designed to assess competency in teamwork at the completion of a QI curriculum taught in a graduate medical education program. Further research with multiple teams and during a longer period will be needed to better understand the psychometric properties and predictive validity of the teamwork objective structured clinical examination station.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. Varkey.prathibha@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Prathibha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Varkey
authors.forename: Priyanka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Jacqueline J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Laurence C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Torsher
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care