title: Application of the team objective structured clinical encounter (TOSCE) for continuing professional development amongst postgraduate health professionals.
abstract: Educators in healthcare face significant challenges trying to improve interprofessional teamworking skills, with a lack of clarity on how to teach and evaluate such skills. Previously, the team objective structured clinical encounter (TOSCE) has been reported as a teaching and assessment tool, but it has been used primarily in homogenous groups of undergraduates. An interprofessional team of educators set out to evaluate the TOSCE as a teaching intervention amongst a large interprofessional group of postgraduate nurses and midwives. After the TOSCE, 83% of participants reported that they were more aware of potential weaknesses in teamworking and 60% felt more able to work in a team. Mean Likert scale ratings were 4/5 for usefulness, enjoyment and relevance. The TOSCE is a feasible tool for teamwork skill assessment in the demanding postgraduate interprofessional setting and requires further investigation to ascertain its potential for formative and summative assessment of skills.
authors.affiliation: University of Salford, Salford, UK. morris@betterprescribing.com
authors.forename: Morris
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uppal
authors.forename: Kath
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lythgoe
authors.forename: Allison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hollins-Martin
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008880:Midwifery / Q000193:education*; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000193:education*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom