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Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2012

Empathy training for resident physicians: a randomized controlled trial of a neuroscience-informed curriculum.

Helen Riess, John M Kelley, Robert W Bailey, Emily J Dunn, Margot Phillips

Registry-linked trialAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02947477 (EmoTrak, Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion, Stress and Satisfaction Among Residents), which is not on this map. Cited by 121 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT02947477 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2016, after this paper: background citation

EmoTrak, Ecological Momentary Assessment of Emotion, Stress and Satisfaction Among Residents

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoRan2016 to 2017Enrolled100ConditionsStress, EmotionalArmsEmoTrak
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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Helen RiessMassachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. HRiess@Partners.Org
John M Kelley
Robert W Bailey
Emily J Dunn
Margot Phillips

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPhysician empathy is an essential attribute of the patient-physician relationship and is associated with better outcomes, greater patient safety and fewer malpractice claims.

objectiveWe tested whether an innovative empathy training protocol grounded in neuroscience could improve physician empathy as rated by patients.

designRandomized controlled trial.

interventionWe randomly assigned residents and fellows from surgery, medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, ophthalmology, and orthopedics (N=99, 52% female, mean age 30.6 ± 3.6) to receive standard post-graduate medical education or education augmented with three 60-minute empathy training modules. MAIN MEASURE: Patient ratings of physician empathy were assessed within one-month pre-training and between 1-2 months post-training with the use of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure. Each physician was rated by multiple patients (pre-mean=4.6 ± 3.1; post-mean 4.9 ± 2.5), who were blinded to physician randomization. The primary outcome was change score on the patient-rated CARE. KEY

resultsThe empathy training group showed greater changes in patient-rated CARE scores than the control (difference 2.2; P=0.04). Trained physicians also showed greater changes in knowledge of the neurobiology of empathy (difference 1.8; P<0.001) and in ability to decode facial expressions of emotion (difference 1.9; P<0.001).

conclusionsA brief intervention grounded in the neurobiology of empathy significantly improved physician empathy as rated by patients, suggesting that the quality of care in medicine could be improved by integrating the neuroscience of empathy into medical education.

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EmpathyPhysician-Patient RelationsAdultCurriculumEducation, Medical, GraduateFemaleHumansInternship and ResidencyMaleNeurosciences

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PMID22549298
PMCPMC3445669

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