ASiT Management & Leadership Skills for Surgeons

Two course tutors will run the course, a Surgeon Tony Giddings and a Human Factors expert Captain Guy Hirst.  The programme is designed to be interactive using DVD clips to highlight problems, behaviours and solutions, as well as encouraging group discussion throughout.

This will be an opportunity for the trainers and participants to share opportunities and needs using data from research. The focus will be on lean-based, self–generated improvement.

TOPICS
                                        
Self Awareness
This module will explore the way people prefer to think and interact with others in particular under stress and high workload situations with a focus on the workplace. Recognition of these effects can help in understanding why we naturally feel more or less comfortable with our fellow team members. Links to these preferences will be made throughout the training day.

Behaviour & Conflict Management
Here we use the concepts of Transactional Analysis to discuss recognition of developing conflicts and offer simple techniques to minimise such effects.
   
Communication Skills
In this module we introduce the positive aspects of communication between fellow team members and also the potential flaws that exist when in a high workload situation. We deal explicitly with question types and assertion which has been found to be a major contributor to error.

Leadership & Teamworking
This is a highly interactive session delving into effective teamworking utilising the experience and opinions of the participants as a basis. Concepts such as the relevance of Emotional Intelligence will be briefly introduced.

Information Processing & Decision Making
How the brain works, brilliant but intrinsically fallible; decision making processes and how to ensure we effective team decision making.

Situation Awareness
Situation Awareness is introduced as a fundamental core of effective working in a high risk safety environment. The warning signs of loss of SA and tactics to regain and maintain a high level within the team will be covered.

Briefing Skills
The centrepiece of effective teamworking.

Debriefing Skills
Debriefing is fundamentally about learning the day-to-day lessons from working together. It is about learning not blaming.