Clinical Training and Teamwork: Learning and Feedback

MDTMs are now a feature of routine hospital work and provide a valuable learning opportunity for education and practice development. The popularity of the forum as a patient management mechanism has had a negative counter effect on the educational function of the forum. Behavioural interventions and technical supports are identified based on long term ethnographic studies to restore the educational benefits of the forum. The potential for re-developing the MDTM into a rich educational resource that will assist in clinical education, professional development, provide an evidence base for guideline development by integrating clinical outcome feedback into the meeting record is proposed.