This survey will be completed both before and after your training, and will help assess your beliefs about interprofessional training. Thank you for your time! This survey was adapted from Hepburn, K., R. A. Tsukuda and C. Fasser. 1996. Team skills scale. In G. D. Heinemann and A. M. Zeiss, eds., Team performance in health care: Assessment and development. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

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* 1. Please enter your email address

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* 2. What is your year in training?

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* 3. What is your discipline/profession?

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* 4. Is this a mandatory or an elective rotation?

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* 5. Working in teams unnecessarily complicates things most of the time

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* 6. The team approach improves the quality of care to patients

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* 7. Team meetings foster communication among team members from different disciplines

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* 8. Physicians have the right to alter patient care plans developed by the team

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* 9. Patients receiving team care are more likely than other patients to be treated as whole persons

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* 10. A team’s primary purpose is to assist physicians in achieving treatment goals for the patient

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* 11. Working on a team keeps most health professionals enthusiastic and interested in their jobs

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* 12. Patients are less satisfied with their care when it is provided by a team

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* 13. Developing a patient care plan with other team members avoids errors in delivering care

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* 14. When developing interdisciplinary patient care plans, much time is wasted translating jargon from other disciplines

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* 15. Health professionals working on teams are more responsive than others to the emotional and financial needs of patients

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* 16. Developing an interdisciplinary patient care plan is excessively time-consuming

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* 17. The physician should not always have the final word in decisions made by health care teams

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* 18. The give-and-take among team members helps them make better patient care decisions

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* 19. In most instances, the time required for team meetings could be better spent in other ways

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* 20. The physician has the ultimate legal responsibility for decisions made by the team

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* 21. Hospital patients who receive team care are better prepared for discharge than other patients

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* 22. Physicians are natural team leaders

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* 23. The team approach makes the delivery of care more efficient

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* 24. The team approach permits health professionals to meet the needs of family caregivers as well as patients

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* 25. Having to report observations to the team helps team members understand the work of other health professionals

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