Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health

Introduction

Team collaboration is an essential part of success both within academics and the clinical environment. Often, team collaboration is not taught during medical school or even residency and must be learned during one’s postgraduate career. In this article, we aim to summarize five key papers about team collaboration for early career clinician educators.

Methods

We conducted a consensus building process amongst the writing team to generate a list of key papers that describe the importance or significance of team collaboration, seeking input from social media sources. The authors then used a three-round voting methodology akin to a Delphi study to determine the most important papers from the general list.

Results

The five most important papers on the topic of team collaboration, as determined by this mixed group of junior faculty members and faculty developers, is presented in this paper. For each included publication, a summary was provided along with its relevance to junior faculty members and faculty developers.

Conclusion

Five key papers about team collaboration are presented in this paper. These papers provide a foundational background to help junior faculty members with collaborating in teams both clinically and academically. This list may also inform senior faculty and faculty developers about the needs of junior faculty members.