Empathy training to improve physician-patient communication skills

Feighny, K M; Monaco, M; Arnold, Lynette

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“…[14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Nevertheless, the validity of such selfassessments is unknown. 13 Our study found a trend towards a decline in measured empathy with increased clinical training with a self-administered instrument, but an improvement in observed empathy among these more clinically experienced students.…”

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Comparing a Self-Administered Measure of Empathy with Observed Behavior Among Medical Students

2009

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PURPOSE: Studies show that measures of physician and medical students' empathy decline with clinical training. Presently, there are limited data relating selfreported measures to observed behavior. This study explores a self-reported measure and observed empathy in medical students.METHOD: Students in the Class of 2009, at a universitybased medical school, were surveyed at the end of their 2nd and 3rd year. Students completed the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Student Version (JSPE-S), a self-administered scale, and were evaluated for demonstrated empathic behavior during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).RESULTS: 97.6% and 98.1% of eligible students participated in their 2nd and 3rd year, respectively. The overall correlation between the JSPE-S and OSCE empathy scores was 0.22, p<0.0001. Students had higher self-reported JSPE-S scores in their 2nd year compared to their 3rd year (118.63 vs. 116.08, p< 0.0001), but had lower observed empathy scores (3.96 vs. 4.15, p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS:Empathy measured by a self-administered scale decreased, whereas observed empathy increased among medical students with more medical training.

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Comparing a Self-Administered Measure of Empathy with Observed Behavior Among Medical Students

2009

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“…Such studies suggest that focused educational interventions may be successful at nurturing undergraduate medical students' empathy. (Evans et al, 1989, Henry-Tillman et al, 2002, Shapiro et al, 2004, Feighny et al, 1995, Hull et al, 2001 …”

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Maintaining empathy in medical school: It is possible

Hegazi¹,

Wilson²

2013

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“…1 Empathy is essentially a cognitive phenomenon but it also involves affective sensitivity to patients' need and a behavioral ability to convey and communicate the same to him/her. 2 William Osler had very aptly summed up empathy when he said " it is as important to know what kind of a man (sic) has the disease as to know what kind of a disease has the man". 3 Hozat had found in a study that medical graduates with higher empathy did better in clinical competence than on academic competence.…”

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Cross sectional assessment of empathy among undergraduates from a medical college

Shashikumar

Chaudhary

Ryali³

et al. 2014

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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Undergraduate medical studentsChoice of specialty a b s t r a c t Background: Empathy is essentially a desirable quality among clinicians and can be developed during medical education. Studies from outside India have shown that higher empathy is related to better competency and choice of specialty may be related to empathy levels in them. Change in empathy levels among undergraduate medical students with progressive training has been often ascribed to reasons such as curriculum content, timing of clinical rotations. Gender differences in empathy levels also vary among different countries. Since many of such factors differ in India there is a need therefore to understand empathy and its correlates among medical students in India.Method: A cross sectional study was undertaken in a large medical college among the undergraduates of first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth semesters to measure their empathy levels. The evaluation was done using the Jefferson's Scale for Physician's Empathy-Student version.Results: The study revealed highest empathy at entry level and a significant fall by seventh semester (p ¼ 0.002). Female students had significantly higher empathy levels than male students (p ¼ 0.012) across all semesters. The variance in empathy scores according specialty chosen is not statistically significant (p ¼ 0.2468). Conclusion:The progressive decline in empathy levels with years in medical college here is seen much later than in western studies. Female students are more empathetic than male students. The relation of mean empathy scores and choice of specialty is inconclusive and at variance from other studies.ª 2014, Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS). All rights reserved.* Corresponding author. Tel.: þ91 9657167900 (mobile). E-mail address: sribuj@yahoo.com (R. Shashikumar).Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect journal homepage: w ww.el sevier.com/locate/mjafi m e d i c a l j o u r n a l a r m e d f o r c e s i n d i a 7 0 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 1 7 9 e1 8 5

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Empathy training to improve physician-patient communication skills

Cited by 28 publications

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Comparing a Self-Administered Measure of Empathy with Observed Behavior Among Medical Students

Comparing a Self-Administered Measure of Empathy with Observed Behavior Among Medical Students

Maintaining empathy in medical school: It is possible

Cross sectional assessment of empathy among undergraduates from a medical college

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