ArticleAdvances in medical education and practice2014
Empathy levels among first year Malaysian medical students: an observational study.
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- Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
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- Diversity of Emotional Intelligence among Nursing and Medical Students.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2016Article
- Investigating the psychometric properties of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy in a sample of Malaysian medical students.Advances in medical education and practice · 2016Article
- Empathy levels among first year Malaysian medical students: an observational study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2014Article
- Levels of empathy in undergraduate emergency health, nursing, and midwifery students: a longitudinal study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2014Article
- Empathy among undergraduate medical students: A cross-sectional study in one Malaysian public medical school.Annals of African medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe literature indicates that medical practitioners experience declining empathy levels in clinical practice. This highlights the need to educate medical students about empathy as an attribute early in the academic curriculum. The objective of this study was to evaluate year one students' self-reported empathy levels following a 2-hour empathy workshop at a large medical school in Malaysia.
methodsChanges in empathy scores were examined using a paired repeated-measures t-test in this prospective before and after study.
resultsAnalyzing the matched data, there was a statistically significant difference and moderate effect size between mean empathy scores before and 5 weeks after the workshop (112.08±10.67 versus 117.93±13.13, P<0.0001, d=0.48) using the Jefferson Scale Physician Empathy (Student Version).
conclusionThe results of this observational study indicate improved mean self-reported empathy scores following an empathy workshop.
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