Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)

A validated curriculum for teaching interprofessional communication; used with health workers; focuses on five key principles (leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, communication, and team structure)

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Well-being debriefings for health care workers: An Evidence-based method for improving well-being

A facilitator training manual to lead informal, peer-facilitated, small-group meetings where health workers have an opportunity to give voice to the difficult nature of their work and discuss issues that negatively affect resiliency

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Allyship in Residency

This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop aimed at helping residents understand the definition of allyship, effective allyship to patients and colleagues, and allyship differences across communities.

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VITALS tool for interupting microaggressions

This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop designed to raise awareness of microaggressions encountered by medical students and trainees. It includes a focus on the use of the VITALS (validate, inquire, take time, assume, leave opportunities, speak up) framework when responding to microaggressions.

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ERASE-ing Patient Mistreatment of Trainees: Faculty Workshop

This article describes the development, teaching and evaluation of a stepwise approach to help faculty physicians manage patient mistreatment of trainees (residents and students). The approach is summarized by the acronym ERASE.

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REWIND Communication Tool

This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop for residents with didactics on mistreatment in the medical learning environment. It includes a demonstration of the use of the REWIND (relax, express, why, inquire, negotiate, determine) communication tool to address mistreatment in residency.

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Forum Theater as a Teaching Tool to Combat Patient Bias

This article presents an educational activity that used an adaptation of forum theater, in which participants role-played an instance of oppression with a goal of altering the ultimate outcome. It provided them with the opportunity to develop and rehearse responses to workplace bias from patients and patient families in a way that preserved the provider-patient relationship.

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