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NEW: Human factors
  • Introduction
  • eTutor profile
  • Essential reading
  • Human factors in maternity
  • Teaching resources
  • Preparing to teach human factors
  • Self-awareness
  • Delivering simulation and debriefing
  • Communication and graded assertiveness
  • Situational awareness
  • Types of communication
  • Cognitive biases
  • Mental models
  • Systemic migration of boundaries
  • Decision making
  • User feedback

eTutor profile

This package was developed by the Maternity Human Factors Team at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and funded by the Eastern Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).  

All associated human factors teaching video resources, made as part of this eLearning package by the Human Factors Team at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, can be found on the YouTube Channel ‘Safer Maternity Teams’.
 

Development team:

  • Victoria Wallis
  • Edward Prosser-Snelling

Peer-reviewers:

  • Charles Bircher 
  • Susie Crowe
  • Anita Dougall
  • Mandy Forrester
  • Kim Hinshaw
  • Tony Kelly
  • Rehan Khan
  • Edward Morris
  • Ben Tipney
  • Ruth Unstead-Joss (Women's Network Representative)

Dr Victoria Wallis MBBS

Victoria wrote drafts for the module, produced online and video content with third parties and amended and created the final module.

Dr Wallis is a specialty trainee registrar in the East of England deanery. She has worked as a Clinical Fellow in Human Factors, Multi-professional Education and Simulation at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in 2018-19. She has been designing and delivering human factors teaching since 2018. Dr Wallis is also the RCOG ePortfolio Trainee Champion for the East of England deanery and is the trainee representative for the East of England Obstetrics and Gynaecology Communications Team.

Mr Edward Prosser-Snelling BA (Hons) MBBS MRCOG

Ed concieved the module and content, designed the outline, edited drafts and approved the final work.

Ed Prosser-Snelling is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Associate Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He is the RCOG 'Each Baby Counts' Quality Improvement Lead and is the East of England Deanery Associate Training Programme Director for Marketing and Recruitment. He has been designing and delivering human factors teaching since 2014. Ed also sat on the RCOG eLearning Editorial Board from 2015 to 2018.  He co-authored the human factors elements of the 2018 RCOG postgraduate curriculum.

Prosser-Snelling E. 2015. Safer Births Through Better Teamworking. London: The Health Foundation. [Accessed 27 March 2019]. 

Prosser-Snelling E, Knight M. Thematic Analysis 3 – Human factors and lack of non-technical skills. In: Each Baby Counts: 2015 Full Report. London: RCOG Press; 2017. p. 59–69.

Ansari S, Rayfield M, Wallis V, Jardine JE, Morris EP, Prosser-Snelling E. A safety evaluation of the impact of maternity orientated human factors training on safety culture in a tertiary maternity unit. J Patient Saf 2018;1–8.


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