Empathy predicting career choice in future physicians

Pantović-Stefanović, Maja; Dunjić-Kostić, Bojana; Gligorić, Mirjana; Lačković, Milena; Damjanović, Aleksandar; Ivković, Maja

doi:10.5937/engrami1501037p

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“…In the present study, mean empathy scores of the dietetic interns demonstrated a slightly higher level of empathy when compared to other health disciplines such as dental and medical students. 22,23 The findings of the present study are in line with the study done by William (2014). 24 The researchers observed a higher empathy score amongst dietetic students than students from other health care professions.…”

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Investigation of empathy amongst dietetic interns at selected primary and tertiary health‐care facilities

Yang

Low

et al. 2019

Nutrition & Dietetics

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Aim Empathy is an essential aspect in the delivery of quality nutrition care and promoting better outcomes in patients. With an increased emphasis of patient‐centred care in dietetic practice, empathy should underpin the construct of the curriculum in dietetic education. The present study investigated the empathy level of dietetic interns through self‐reporting measures and patients' perception. Methods This cross‐sectional study was conducted on a total of 57 dietetic interns and 99 patients from primary and tertiary health care settings. The dietetic interns completed the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) while the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure was self‐administered by patients. Socio‐demographic information of participants was collected. Results The dietetic interns' mean (standard deviation [SD]) TEQ scores were 46.90 ± 5.28 and 47.78 ± 5.34 in primary and tertiary care, respectively. CARE measure scores rated by patients in the primary care were 38.61 ± 8.38 and for tertiary setting, the scores were slightly higher (39.47 ± 7.65). The settings, gender, ethnicity and period of internship did not affect dietetic interns' empathy level. In primary care, CARE scores were significantly different between patients' age grouping (P = 0.007). Conclusions Findings from the present study showed that patients' age significantly affected their perception of dietetic interns' empathy in primary health care. These preliminary findings could facilitate an understanding of the level of empathy amongst interns for consideration in the future design of dietetic training.

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Investigation of empathy amongst dietetic interns at selected primary and tertiary health‐care facilities

Yang

Low

et al. 2019

Nutrition & Dietetics

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“…Choice of medical discipline is influenced by many factors, for example, empathy. In a study of medical students in Serbia, high levels of empathy were related to the choice of people-oriented versus technology-oriented medical disciplines as a future career (Pantovic-Stefanovic et al, 2015). Although it is highly speculative, we may expect medical doctors with high levels of empathy to have less stigmatizing attitudes towards mental illness, therefore tending to choose people-oriented disciplines; this may at least partly explain our finding.…”

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Mental illness stigma among medical students and teachers

Janoušková

Weissová

Formánek

et al. 2017

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…The same conclusion was started by a team of researchers in Malaysia [ 33 ] that studied empathy levels amongst medical students, where the female students scored higher on the TEQ than the male participants, but there were no significant differences determined by the year of study. In a study investigating empathy, a Serbian team of researchers [ 34 ] included some 178 first-year medical students and 185 senior medical students. The mean score on the TEQ was 45.23 ± 7.02, and the levels of empathy did not differ between the senior and first-year students.…”

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“…In our study, women have obtained significantly higher scores overall, but also in positive and negative worded questions. As already discussed above, this result was not a constant finding, though most of the reports acknowledge women with higher empathy [29,33,34]. Schulte-Ruther et al [36] suggested that women and men rely on different strategies when assessing their own emotions in response to other people, with women enhancing reliance on the human mirror neuron system and men on the theory of mind associated areas.…”

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Validation of the Romanian Version of the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) among Undergraduate Medical Students

Ursoniu

Serban

Giurgi-Oncu

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Medical professionals require adequate abilities to identify others’ emotions and express personal emotions. We aimed to determine the validity and reliability of an empathy measuring tool in medical students for this study. We employed Spreng’s Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) as a starting point for this validation. The process was performed in several steps, including an English-Romanian-English translation and a focus group meeting to establish each question’s degree of understandability and usability, with minor improvements of wording in each step. We checked internal and external consistency in a pilot group (n = 67). For construct and convergent validity, we used a sample of 649 students. The overall internal and external reliability performed well, with Cronbach’s alpha = 0.727 and respective ICC = 0.776. The principal component analysis resulted in 3 components: prosocial helping behavior, inappropriate sensitivity, dismissive attitude. Component 1 includes positively worded questions, and components 2 and 3 include negatively worded questions. Women had significantly higher scores than men in convergent validity, but we did not highlight any differences for other demographic factors. The Romanian version of the TEQ is a reliable and valid tool to measure empathy among undergraduate medical students that may be further used in subsequent research.

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Empathy predicting career choice in future physicians

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Investigation of empathy amongst dietetic interns at selected primary and tertiary health‐care facilities

Investigation of empathy amongst dietetic interns at selected primary and tertiary health‐care facilities

Mental illness stigma among medical students and teachers

Validation of the Romanian Version of the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) among Undergraduate Medical Students

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