ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Impact of a Pandemic and Remote Learning on Team Development and Elements of Compassion in Prospective Medical Students Taking a Medical Humanities Course.
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- Enhancing emotional intelligence in medical education: a systematic review of interventions.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Implicit bias assessment by career stage in medical education training: a narrative review.BMC medical education · 2025Review
- Do students' attitudes toward required readings and service-learning for a Medical Humanities course predict their perception of whether the course fosters their personal and professional development?Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Genetics, Epigenetics, and the Environment: Are Precision Medicine, Provider Compassion, and Social Justice Effective Public Health Measures to Mitigate Disease Risk and Severity?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
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- Educational strategies in the health professions to mitigate cognitive and implicit bias impact on decision making: a scoping review.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Survey of attitudes toward performing and reflecting on required team service-learning (SASL): psychometric data and reliability/validity for healthcare professions students in preclinical courses.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Critical reflection on required service to the community propels prospective medical students toward higher empathy, compassion, and bias mitigation but are these gains sustainable?Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- A Study of Differences in Compulsory Courses Offering Medicine Humanization and Medical Communication in Polish Medical Schools: Content Analysis of Secondary Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionWe reported previously that when teams of students reflect on readings about communication, unconscious bias, and service-learning, their critical reflection, implicit bias mitigation, empathy, and compassionate behavior all increase. However, would these gains occur when intimate classroom settings, in-person team meetings, and direct interactions with people served were lost owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and remote learning?
methodsBefore an online Medical Humanities course began in August 2020 and following the course in December 2020, 61 prospective medical students (54.1% female) completed reliable surveys of their reflective capacity (RC) and cognitive empathy (compassion). Students also completed surveys about their implicit biases and team community service in December 2020.
resultsBoth RC and empathy scores increased in students after they reflected on difficulties in communication, unconscious biases, and team service-learning experiences in the course. In written reflections, they reported how their compassionate behavior also grew owing to bias mitigation. Most students concurred that "unconscious bias might affect some of (their) clinical decisions or behaviors as a healthcare professional" and vowed to remain aware of these biases in clinical settings.
conclusionsCompared to previous years, the pandemic and remote learning had minimal effects on the benefits of our Medical Humanities course.
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