Key result
Non-technical skills, such as communication, leadership, and decision-making, are essential for surgeons to manage unexpected challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and improve team performance.
Why the study?
Non-technical skills are essential for managing unexpected situations, prompting a need to understand their contribution during crises, emergencies, and new technology integration to shape future surgical leaders.
Non-technical skills are crucial for surgeons to manage unexpected challenges and shape future surgical leaders.
NTS may aid crisis decision-making in surgery; leaves open whether training improves outcomes in prospective studies.
The surgical literature is paying more and more attention to the topic of soft or non-technical skills (NTS), defined as those cognitive and social skills that characterize high-performing individuals and teams. NTS are essential in supporting surgeons in dealing with unexpected situations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, NTS have been considered crucial in defining situation awareness, enhancing decision making, communicating among groups and teams, and fostering leadership. With a "looking back and planning forward" approach, the current perspective aims at deepening the contribution of NTS for surgeons to deal with the unexpected challenges posed by the COVID crisis, surgical emergencies, the introduction of new technologies in clinical practice, to understand how such skills may help shape the surgical leaders of the future.
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Cobianchi et al. (2022) conducted a review in Surgical practice and education. Non-technical skills (NTS) and soft skills training was evaluated. Non-technical skills, such as communication, leadership, and decision-making, are essential for surgeons to manage unexpected challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic and improve team performance.
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