RCOG SUPPORT TOOLS
Developing non-technical O&G skills
Non-technical skills eLearning resources The non-technical skills section on StratOG, the RCOG’s eLearning platform, offers a comprehensive selection of online resources aimed at helping doctors in O&G improve their skills to support better communication and workplace behaviour.
Training resources • Online assessors resource – aimed at supporting clinicians who have been asked to act as an assessor for invited reviews and educational visits
• Train the trainers: ultrasound resource – developed to familiarise trainers with the RCOG’s ultrasound curriculum.
• Workplace-based assessment: eLearning resource – providing support to trainers and trainees with regard to the new categorisation of WPBAs (effective from August 2014)
Communication skills resources • Human factors eLearning – following user feedback, we are looking to improve the human factors resource with the addition of O&G-specific video-based scenarios • Improving workplace behaviour – launched in March 2015, this resource aims to help trainees/trainers become more aware of the difficult issues surrounding undermining and bullying in the workplace, illustrating various methods on how to tackle this problem. With 100% of users saying they would recommend the resource to colleagues, it’s worth a look • Communication skills: video scenarios – the first video of a category one caesarean section, focusing on communication between colleagues, has just been published
Take a look at the non-technical skills section of StratOG to discover the range of products freely available to you as part of your membership benefits.
NOTSS tool available on the Training ePortfolio Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS)
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is a behavioural rating system originally developed by a multidisciplinary group comprising surgeons, psychologists and anaesthetists in Scotland. It allows trainers to give feedback to colleagues and trainees, based on structured observations of non-technical aspects of performance during surgery. Non-technical skills are the cognitive and interpersonal skills that complement practical and technical competences. Analyses of adverse events in surgical specialties have revealed that many underlying causes originate from these behavioural or non-technical aspects of performance (e.g. communication failures) rather than a lack of technical expertise. To date, aspects of performance such as decision making, leadership and team working have been largely developed in an informal and tacit manner rather than being explicitly addressed in training. The NOTSS system provides a framework and common terminology for rating and feedback to be given on non-technical skills.
When used in conjunction with medical
knowledge and clinical skills, NOTSS can allow behaviour in theatre to be observed and rated in a structured manner, and enable
a clear and transparent assessment of training needs. NOTSS describes the main observable non-technical skills associated with good surgical practice. These fall under the following four headings:
• Situation awareness • Decision making • Communication and teamwork • Leadership
The system has been adapted by the RCOG for use on the labour ward and in the gynaecological operating room, while the rating system has been removed to provide a focus on the provision of constructive and timely feedback. The system comprises only behaviours that are directly observable or can be inferred through communication. It has wide-ranging coverage of non-technical skills in as few categories and elements as possible. The NOTSS forms for gynaecological
surgery and the labour ward are now available on the RCOG Training ePortfolio for those trainees who wish to use them.
www.nhseportfolios.org.
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