Adopt mental practice as an economical, sustainable addition to surgical training, including shared mental rehearsal within teams

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 review), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description

The article concludes that in designing surgical training, team building and safety procedures, "MP has potential to improve performance and its application is highly economical, sustainable and feasible with current resources", offering an alternative to expensive technology-based simulation. It further proposes that teams can share their practical envisioning derived through MP to improve collective performance, positioning MP as an information-sharing practice proximal to the task and related to shared mental models, anticipatory thinking and situational awareness. Unlike reflective practice's retrospective review, MP privileges cultivating foresight.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Organisational support for MP resources, requiring organisational spaces, leadership and interpersonal expertise, for example instantiation in pre-surgical routines

Constraints

• The article states MP is still under theorised and little acknowledged, and that whether and how users apply MP post training remains largely unreported

Target Learners

• surgical trainees and practising surgeons
• surgical teams

Learning Goals

• surgical performance improvement
• team coordination and safety

Claims

• Mp Improves Surgical Performance Majority [+M]
• Longitudinal Mixed Method Mp Evaluation [+M]

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Key Sources

• Snelgrove Huon; Gabbott Ben. (2020). Critical analysis of evidence about the impacts on surgical teams of ‘mental practice’ in systematic reviews: a systematic rapid evidence assessment (SREA). BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02131-3

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Field	Value
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id	mp-economical-team-training-principle
title	Adopt mental practice as an economical, sustainable addition to surgical training, including shared mental rehearsal within teams
description	The article concludes that in designing surgical training, team building and safety procedures, "MP has potential to improve performance and its application is highly economical, sustainable and feasible with current...
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-01
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sources	1 — snelgrove-huon-gabbott-ben-2020

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