Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium.
BMC Med Educ. 2022 Mar 22;22(1):198. doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03263-4.
Despite the increasing importance of teamwork in healthcare, medical education still puts great emphasis on individual achievements. The purpose of this study is to examine medical students' team role preferences, including the association with gender and specialty; and to provide implications for policy makers and medical educators.
We used an exploratory methodology, following a cross-sectional design. Data was collected from first year master students in medicine (n = 2293) during five consecutive years (2016-2020). The Belbin Team Role Self Perception Inventory (BTRSPI) was used to measure medical students' self-perceptions of their team role.
The Team Worker was the most preferred team role among medical students (35.8%), regardless of gender or specialty. Female and male students had similar team role patterns, although female students scored higher on Team Worker (40.4% vs. 29.1%, P < .001) and Completer-Finisher (14.0% vs. 8.0%, P < .001). With regard to specialties, the Team Worker role was more often chosen by general practitioners than by person-centered and technique-oriented specialties (47.1% vs. 41.8% vs. 29.1%, P < .001).
Our findings contribute to an increased scientific understanding of how medical students perceive their own team role, and how this is related to gender and specialty. This is valuable due to the increased importance of interdisciplinary teamwork in healthcare. Medical schools should prioritize stimulating teamwork skills through the implementation of different interventions at all stages (i.e. from the admission process to curricula to residency) and all levels (i.e. explicit and implicit curricula).
尽管团队合作在医疗保健中的重要性日益增加，但医学教育仍然非常重视个人成就。本研究旨在考察医学生的团队角色偏好，包括与性别和专业的关联；并为政策制定者和医学教育工作者提供启示。
我们采用了探索性方法，遵循横断面设计。在连续五年（2016-2020 年）期间，从一年级医学硕士学生（n=2293）中收集数据。使用贝尔宾团队角色自我感知量表（BTRSPI）来衡量医学生对自己团队角色的自我感知。
无论性别或专业如何，医学生最偏好的团队角色是团队合作者（35.8%）。女学生和男学生的团队角色模式相似，尽管女学生在团队合作者（40.4%比 29.1%，P<.001）和完成者（14.0%比 8.0%，P<.001）方面的得分更高。就专业而言，全科医生比以人为中心和技术为导向的专业更常选择团队合作者角色（47.1%比 41.8%比 29.1%，P<.001）。
我们的研究结果有助于增加对医学生如何感知自己的团队角色，以及这种感知如何与性别和专业相关的科学理解。由于跨学科团队合作在医疗保健中的重要性增加，这一点很有价值。医学院应通过在各个阶段（即从招生过程到课程到住院医师实习）和各个层面（即显性和隐性课程）实施不同的干预措施，优先培养团队合作技能。
