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Non-technical skills impact trauma resuscitation time. Crisis resource management teaches non-technical skills required for effective teamwork in a crisis. We developed a simulation-based multidisciplinary trauma team training, with an emphasis on crisis resource management and a goal of improving residents' non-technical skills. ⋯ Crisis resource management-focused multidisciplinary team training significantly improves residents' non-technical skills in the simulated environment. Case repetition followed by crisis resource management focused debriefings outweighed the effect of a single Just-In-Time crisis resource management didactic.