Continuing our series on psychological foundations for physician mental fitness (autonomy, connectedness, and competence), we are rounding out the final domain of physician autonomy this week – Team. Interestingly, over the past two weeks, many of my examples demonstrated ideas for autonomy of time, task, and technique involving team. Teamwork is interwoven into medicine, so it makes sense that it would impact the other three arenas.

There are top-down organizations that...