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How well do medical students rate and communicate clinical empathy?
- Source :
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Medical Teacher . Feb2013, Vol. 35 Issue 2, pe946-e951. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Background: This article presents findings from a prospective, longitudinal cohort educational study investigating empathy communication in clinical consultations. It reports on changes in students' self-report empathy during medical undergraduate training, investigates how well peers can assess student competence in motivational interviewing/brief interventions (MI/BI) skills and explores the relationship between students' self-report empathy and peer- or tutor-assessments of competence. Methods: 72 medical students completed the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy at three time points: at the beginning of their fifth year medical training (Time 1), after a specific MI/BI training session during their fifth year medical training (Time 2) and 1 year later during a revision session in year 6. Competence in BI/MI consultation was assessed using the validated tool Behaviour Change Counselling Index. Results: A significant decline in medical students' empathy scores was observed from year 5 to year 6, consistent with international findings. Peer assessments and tutor ratings of competence in MI/BI skills performance were moderately correlated, but peer assessments were negatively correlated with medical students' self-rated empathy. Senior medical students who self-rated as more empathic received lower competence evaluations of MI/BI skills from their peers. Interventions to further investigate teaching and learning of empathy are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ANALYSIS of variance
*CLINICAL medicine
*COMMUNICATION
*STATISTICAL correlation
*EMPATHY
*HEALTH occupations students
*LONGITUDINAL method
*PATIENT-professional relations
*MEDICAL students
*PHYSICIAN-patient relations
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*SCALES (Weighing instruments)
*SCHOOL environment
*SELF-evaluation
*RATING of students
*AFFINITY groups
*MOTIVATIONAL interviewing
*REPEATED measures design
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0142159X
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Medical Teacher
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85606761
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2012.715783