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This 4-item, 3-point scale is modified from the original 7-item scale and is adapted for ease of applicability to clinical settings. It is intended for the assesment of individuals within an interprofessional team in a patient encounter, to provide performance feedback. The scale was validated in the standardized setting of a Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (Generalizability coefficient .73). It can be applied to any health profession. The behaviors/skills observed are Collaboration, Roles, Patient/Family-Centeredness and Conflict Management. Descriptive behavioral anchors for each skill permit objective rating and specific feedback. Rater training is recommended.

References:

Lie DA, Richter-Lagha R, Forest CP, Walsh A, Lohenry K. When less is more: validating a brief scale to rate interprofessional team competencies. Med Educ Online. 2017;22(1):1314751, available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10872981.2017.1314751

Lie, DA, May, W, Richter, R, Forest, C, Banzali, Y and Lohenry, K. Adapting the McMaster-Ottawa Scale for Assessing Individual and Team performance in a Team Objective Structured Clinical Examination (TOSCE), Medical Educ Online 2015, 20: 26691 available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v20.26691.

Forest CP, Lie, DA, Ma SB. Evaluating interprofessional team performance: a faculty rater tool. MedEdPORTAL Publications. 2016;12:10447. http://dx.doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10447