What does high quality interdisciplinary action look like? How do we measure it? How do we teach it? How do we make it more likely to happen?
Late posting, but earlier this month I was honored to share some of Mission Critical Team Institute's research on swarm team leadership in the trauma bay with the awesome and deeply dedicated folks at the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) conference. #TQIP24
Medicine - especially trauma care in the resuscitation bay - is a team sport, but it's also all too often a fragmented, tribal culture with an us vs them mentality.
Swarm teams are self-organizing, multidisciplinary, rapid-action problem solving teams -- in other words exactly what you get when you bring skilled providers from different disciplines together in a trauma bay to save a life. Leading effective swarm teams in the trauma bay means learning to rapidly bridge these fragmented cultures and "E Pluribus Unum" your way to delivering elite level medical care in complex, rapidly adaptive, high-consequence environments.
At MCTI, we're actively working on how to build better swarm teams and at the TQIP conference we focused on making operators better at swarming and making the teams less "swarmy" by training interdisciplinary communication, simulating rapid teaming protocols, and reconnecting fragmented cultures.
Thank you to Avery Nathens, Dylan Pannell, Mark H, and the team at Sunnybrook for the invitation and deep ideas.
How are you building better swarm teams?
#missioncriticalmedicine