Watson Helen R, Millin Paul, Close James, Jeffery Robert, Stephenson Holly, Zahra Daniel
Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth, UK.
FEBS Open Bio. 2025 Feb;15(2):359-372. doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.13915. Epub 2024 Nov 7.
Teamwork is vital to all types of work, and graduates of higher education programmes must be prepared to contribute to a wide variety of professional teams. This is especially true in healthcare, where graduates will work in multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) under considerable pressure. This study is a follow-up to a previous study, where we described how competition between students is a barrier to constructive teamwork. Since then, we have made considerable enhancements to our transferable skills curriculum, moved away from norm referencing, and there have been national changes to the way that graduate Foundation training places are allocated. Here we present findings from a qualitative study of students from all six stages of our medical degree programme (5 years plus predegree foundation year). We explored whether there had been changes in how students perceived the importance of teamwork, their own teamwork development and how they collaborated with their peers. Following analysis of in-depth, semi-structured interviews, five themes emerged: (a) competition between students; (b) importance of teamwork; (c) what makes effective teamwork; (d) preparing for work in MDTs; and (e) recommendations for teamwork education. Competition between students was perceived as both positive and negative, but there has been a shift since our last study towards collaboration, with students now more willing to help each other succeed. Students also show more insight into their teamwork development, and were able to discuss what aspects of the programme, and higher education more broadly, were most valuable in helping them develop.
团队合作对各类工作都至关重要，高等教育项目的毕业生必须做好准备，为各种各样的专业团队做出贡献。在医疗保健领域尤其如此，毕业生将在多学科团队（MDT）中承受巨大压力开展工作。本研究是之前一项研究的后续，在之前的研究中，我们描述了学生之间的竞争如何成为建设性团队合作的障碍。从那时起，我们对可转移技能课程进行了大幅改进，摒弃了常模参照，并且在研究生基础培训名额的分配方式上也发生了全国性的变化。在此，我们展示了对医学学位课程所有六个阶段（5年加学位前基础年）学生进行定性研究的结果。我们探讨了学生对团队合作重要性的认知、自身团队合作能力的发展以及他们与同龄人协作方式是否发生了变化。在对深入的半结构化访谈进行分析后，出现了五个主题：（a）学生之间的竞争；（b）团队合作的重要性；（c）有效团队合作的要素；（d）为在多学科团队中工作做准备；（e）团队合作教育的建议。学生之间的竞争被认为既有积极的一面，也有消极的一面，但自我们上次研究以来，情况已转向合作，学生现在更愿意帮助彼此取得成功。学生对自己的团队合作发展也有了更多见解，并且能够讨论该课程以及更广泛的高等教育中哪些方面对帮助他们发展最有价值。
