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TRAINING MEDICAL STUDENTS TO EMPATHIZE AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Author(s) -
SansonFisher R. W.,
Poole A. Desmond
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb112562.x
Subject(s) - empathy , medical education , psychology , interpersonal communication , interpersonal relationship , training (meteorology) , quality (philosophy) , medicine , social psychology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , meteorology
Research has indicated that patients are greatly concerned about the poor quality of doctors' interpersonal communication skills, but such training is infrequently incorporated into medical education. An experimental study, which used a commercially available training programme, is described. Undergraduate medical students were the subjects of the study, and their ability to empathize was assessed in the actual interview. Results indicated that training was effective in increasing the students' levels of empathy.