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February 2, 2026Medical Teacher0 citationsOpen Access

What can tennis doubles teach us about medical dyads? Translating collaborative expertise into medical education

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KWKatie WalkerMater Health ServicesMAMaryam AsoodarMaastricht UniversityMMMichael MeguerdichianNew York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

Key Points

  • The research aims to explore how insights from tennis doubles can improve relational competencies in medical education.
  • Analyzed collaborative behaviors in tennis doubles and their application to medical dyads.
  • Identified key relational competencies required for effective teamwork in both contexts.
  • Examined opportunities for integrating dyad-focused training in educational settings.
  • Tennis dyads utilize a broader behavioral repertoire compared to medical dyads.
  • There are significant opportunities to integrate team-focused training in medical education.
  • Enhanced relational competence can lead to better collaboration in healthcare.

Abstract

While collaborative dimensions are shared, tennis dyads draw on a broader behavioural repertoire. These findings highlight opportunities to enhance medical education by integrating dyad-focused training that explicitly develops relational competence in simulation, debriefing, and workplace learning.

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Walker et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6980fe57c1c9540dea81049fhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2026.2621216
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