Empathy and attitudes among medical students

Elizur, Avner; Rosenheim, Eliyahu

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“…The attitudes of medical students change over time with different teaching and experiential exposures. [11][12][13][14][15] A limitation of our study is that it looked at only one aspect of teaching and did not measure any changes in attitudes over time.…”

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Attitudes of preclinical medical students towards caring for chronically ill and dying patients: does palliative care teaching make a difference?

Lloyd‐Williams

Dogra

2004

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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Introduction: Students entering medical school today will encounter an ageing population and a higher incidence of diseases affecting the elderly-for example, chronic respiratory and cardiac disease and malignancy. Purpose: This study was carried out to determine the attitudes of preclinical medical students towards the care of patients for whom a cure is not possible. Methods: All students were invited to complete a 23 item questionnaire prior to initial teaching and again following the second teaching session in palliative care. Results: Overall, 149 of the 186 students (80%) completed the pre-teaching questionnaire (59 males and 90 females; median age 20 years, range 19-27 years), and 66 students (35%) completed the postteaching questionnaire. Attitudes towards chronically ill and dying patients were generally positive. It was found that increasing age was associated with a more positive view of caring for patients with chronic or terminal illness, a more positive view of listening to patients reminisce, and a more positive view of patients dying at home (p = 0.014). The only notable result was that after palliative care teaching students had a significantly more positive view of hospices. Conclusion: Caring for patients at the end of life can be one of the most rewarding aspects of being a doctor. This study suggests that the majority of medical students have a positive attitude towards patients with chronic incurable illness, and the trend for encouraging older students to enter medicine may be an influencing factor.

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Attitudes of preclinical medical students towards caring for chronically ill and dying patients: does palliative care teaching make a difference?

Lloyd‐Williams

Dogra

2004

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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“…Older students also had a more positive view of patients dying at home. This study only evaluated the attitudes of pre-clinical students; the attitudes of medical students change over time with different teaching and experiential exposures [11,12,13,14,15,16] . A limitation of our study is that it only looked at one aspect of teaching and did not measure any changes in attitudes over time.…”

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Caring for dying patients?what are the attitudes of medical students?

Lloyd‐Williams¹,

Dogra

2003

Supportive Care in Cancer

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Students entering medical school today will encounter an ageing population and a higher incidence of patients with terminal and life threatening illness. This study was carried out to determine the attitudes of pre-clinical medical students towards the care of patients for whom a cure is not possible. All students were invited to complete a 23-item questionnaire prior to any teaching in palliative care. Of the 186 students who participated in the study, 151 (79%) completed the pre-teaching questionnaire (males=59; females 90; median age 20 years; range 19-27]. Attitudes towards chronically ill and dying patients were generally positive. When comparing age with attitudes it was found that increasing age was associated with a more positive view of caring for patients with chronic or terminal illness, a more positive view of listening to patients reminisce and a more positive view of patients dying at home. Caring for patients at the end of life can be one of the most rewarding aspects of being a doctor. This study suggests that the majority of medical students have a positive attitude towards patients with chronic and terminal illness-the trend for encouraging older students to enter medicine may be an influencing factor.

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“…The literature also contains evidence to support the claim that empathy and sensitivity can be taught and measured (Diseker & Michielutte, 1981;Elizur & Rosenheim, 1982;Gorlin & Zucker, 1983). The intent behind the research reported in this article was to compare different approaches to increasing sensitivity among students in the health professions and, more specifically, to examine the respective impacts of these approaches on sensitivity levels.…”

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“…There is a substantial body of research that also reports no increase in empathy through didactic courses that could be considered humanistic. Markham reports, in a study of empathy and attitudes of nurses and medical students, that there were no observed changes in empathy after taking theoretical courses and seminars in behavioral sciences and psychopathology (cited in Elizur & Rosenheim, 1982). Taft, in an extensive review of 81 different studies regarding the ability to judge the feelings and behaviors of others, found no relationship between amount of training in psychology and success in judging others (cited in Kalisch, 1971, p. 202).…”

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Improving the Sensitivity of Health Professionals To the Needs of Patients and Families

Berkman

Rutchick

1987

Small Group Behavior

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This study examines, by means of a quasi-experimental design, the impact of a variety of methods involving humanistic, didactic, and experiential modalities in training students—potential health professionals—in empathy-sensitivity and interpersonal skills. An eclectic, multimodal approach using audiovisual technology, role playing, observation, and discussion was found to be most effective in raising levels of sensitivity.

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Empathy and attitudes among medical students

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Attitudes of preclinical medical students towards caring for chronically ill and dying patients: does palliative care teaching make a difference?

Attitudes of preclinical medical students towards caring for chronically ill and dying patients: does palliative care teaching make a difference?

Caring for dying patients?what are the attitudes of medical students?

Improving the Sensitivity of Health Professionals To the Needs of Patients and Families

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