Clinical teaching with emotional intelligence: A teaching toolbox

Abstract

Background:Emotional intelligence (EI) helps humans to perceive their own and others’ emotions. It helps to make better interpersonal communication that consequently leads to an increase in everyday performance and professional career. Teaching, particularly teaching in the clinical environment, is among the professions that need a high level of EI due to its relevance to human interactions.Materials and Methods:We adopted EI competencies with characteristics of a good clinical teacher. As a result, we extracted 12 strategies and then reviewed the literatures relevant to these strategies.Results:In the present article, 12 strategies that a clinical teacher should follow to use EI in her/his teaching were described.Conclusion:To apply EI in clinical settings, a teacher should consider all the factors that can bring about a more positive emotional environment and social interactions. These factors will increase students’ learning, improve patients’ care, and maintain her/his well-being. In addition, he/she will be able to evaluate her/his teaching to improve its effectiveness.

Predictors and correlations of emotional intelligence among medical students at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah

“…Emotional intelligence (EI) plays an important role in medicine and medical education. 1 - 3 EI is defined as the ability to perceive emotions, access and generate emotions, understand emotions, and reflectively regulate it for promoting emotional and intellectual growth. 2 It denotes the cooperative mixture between intelligence and emotions.…”

“…EI has been recognized as an essential trait for medical students and health care providers. 1 , 6 It can be considered as one predictor of good performance and better quality of care delivered to patients. Medical students, as future practitioners, need to have sound EI for having more effective communication and empathy with their patients.…”

<p>Advocating a bottom-up approach in the teaching of feedback skills to medical students [Letter]</p>

“…Furthermore, the application of emotional intelligence, ie, techniques and insights that help humans perceive their own and others’ emotions, in teaching has led to improvement in clinical teachers’ performances 4. Application of emotional intelligence could also avoid “negative emotional reactions such as denial and defense,” experienced by some of the teachers in Jamshidian et al’s study,1 and allow clinical teachers to reflect on feedback content objectively.…”

Emotional Intelligence And Self-Assessment Of School Teachers

“…There were various studies that confirmed the fact of the influence of emotional intelligence of teachers on their work (Dolev & Leshem, 2016, 2017Gilar-Corbi et al, 2018;Kassim et al, 2016;Omid et al, 2016;Zurita-Ortega et al, 2018).…”