Initiative for the implementation of planetary health in postgraduate medical training and continuing medical education in Switzerland.

The Swiss Medical Association FMH drew up the strategy "Planetary health - Strategy on the courses of action on climate change for the medical profession in Switzerland" in collaboration with the Swiss Institute for Medical Education SIME, the umbrella organisations and students. On 7 October 2021, the strategy was approved by the Swiss Medical Chamber with a budget of over CHF 380,000 (approx € 365,000). The first step in implementation involved setting up an advisory group which will tackle the concrete implementation of the strategy.

Assessing distractors and teamwork during surgery: developing an event-based method for direct observation.

Objective: To develop a behavioural observation method to simultaneously assess distractors and communication/teamwork during surgical procedures through direct, on-site observations; to establish the reliability of the method for long (>3 h) procedures.

Methods: Observational categories for an event-based coding system were developed based on expert interviews, observations and a literature review. Using Cohen's κ and the intraclass correlation coefficient, interobserver agreement was assessed for 29 procedures.