The complexity of team training: what we have learned from aviation and its applications to medicine.

W. R. Hamman

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The complexity of team training: what we have learned from aviation and its applications to medicine.

April 6, 2011

Hamman WR. Qual Saf Health Care. 2004;13 Suppl 1:i72-9.

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This commentary looks at the multifunctional principles of team training practiced in commercial aviation and proposes how they may be best applied to medical education.

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