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Beyond “Communication Skills”: Research in Team Communication and Implications for Surgical Education

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Communication is not only descriptive but also constructive of our realities. In social settings such as the surgical team, communication shapes attitudes toward the team’s work, relations among team members, and the complex, coordinated actions that constitute a surgical procedure. Research in the past decade has mapped recurrent patterns of surgical team communication, with critical implications for surgical education in terms of our concept of “the expert surgeon,” our training objectives, and our curriculum design. This chapter presents research that takes a rhetorical perspective on team communication, emphasizing what communication does, the way it shapes understanding and action in social settings. It reviews the research underpinning four key claims about communication, and considers how these claims might inform future efforts in surgical education.

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Lingard, L. (2011). Beyond “Communication Skills”: Research in Team Communication and Implications for Surgical Education. In: Fry, H., Kneebone, R. (eds) Surgical Education. Advances in Medical Education, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1682-7_12

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