Empathic Divergence: Partially Blunting an Affective Empathic Response While Maintaining Cognitive Empathy is an Important Skill for Medical Students to Acquire
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Background: Establishing an empathic bond of trust with patients is a trait that is important to learn during medical school. There are two types of empathy: affective and cognitive. Being able to partially blunt a detrimental affective response while maintaining cognitive empathy is beneficial for both the patient and the physician.
AIM: To find those students who have partially blunted their affective empathy while maintaining or enhancing their cognitive empathic skills.
Methods: Affective and cognitive empathy was measured using the Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale and the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, respectively. The survey instruments were given during entrance into medical school, at the start of years 3-4, and a final administration just before graduation. Students who fit the aim of the study, had blunted their BEES score by -0.5 to -1.5 s.d. below the male or female population norms, as well as being at or above the 75th percentile for JSE scores as established by the Project in Osteopathic Medical Education and Empathy study. Desired specialty choice and sex was also collected at each timepoint. Five specialties are “people-oriented” and have a large amount of patient contact and continuity of care, and include Family and Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. Most other specialties are more “procedure- or technical-oriented” and are those with little or no patient contact and/or continuity of care (e.g., Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology).
Results: Only a small subset of students (n = 15/345) fell within the above parameters upon entering medical school. It was a different, small cadre (n = 13) that had these traits upon graduation. Ergo, there was no student who fell within the parameters for all four years of their undergraduate medical education.
Conclusions: Few students had the ability to partially blunt their affective empathic response while maintaining the ability to give a reassuring cognitive empathic response to patients. This indicates an increased emphasis needs to be placed on teaching empathic skills during the basic science years of the curriculum. However, the onus needs to fall upon the physicians who are empathic role-models during the clinical rotation year.
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NEWTON, Bruce W.; VASKALIS, Zachary T..
Empathic Divergence: Partially Blunting an Affective Empathic Response While Maintaining Cognitive Empathy is an Important Skill for Medical Students to Acquire.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 1, jan. 2024.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4772>. Date accessed: 15 may 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v12i1.4772.
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doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181b17e55
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Doi: 10.1016/j.ijosm.2021.05.003
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doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01526-9
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Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094133
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Doi: 10.1016/s0738-3991(02)00173-8
38. Fletcher KE, Furney SL, Stern DT. (2007) Patients speak: what's really important about bedside interactions with physician teams. Teach Learn Med. 2007;19(2):120-127. Doi: 10.1080/10401330701332193
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Doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.014
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41. Decety J, Yang C-Y, Cheng Y. (2010). Physicians down-regulate their pain empathy response: an event-related brain potential study. Neuroimage. 2010:50:1676–1682.
Doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.025
42. Peterson CD, Rdesinski RE, Biagioli FE, Chappelle KG, Elliot DL. Medical student perceptions of a behavioural and social science curriculum. Ment Health Fam Med. 2011;8(4):215-226. PMCID: PMC3487603
43. Petrou L, Mittelman E, Osibona O, et al. The role of humanities in the medical curriculum: medical students’ perspectives. BMC Med Educ. 2021;21:179.
Doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02555-5
44. Tseretopoulou X, Stratou A, Stavrinou P, Souretis G, Dimoliatis, IDK. Students do not consider all subjects to be equally relevant. Α method for quantifying relevance; implications for curriculum timetabling, teaching and learning, and student assessment of teachers. Archives Hellenic Med. 2011;28(2):227-233.
45. Bayne HB. Training medical students in empathic communication. J Spec Group Work. 2011;36:316-329.
Doi: 10.1080/01933922.2011.613899
46. Levinson W, Lesser CS, Epstein RM. Developing physician communication skills for patient-centered care. Health Affairs. 2010;29(7): 1310-1318.
Doi: 10.1377/hithaff.2009.0450
47. Lases SSL, Arah OA, Pierik EGJMR, Heineman E, Lombarts MJMHK. Residents’ engagement and empathy associated with their perception of faculty’s teaching performance. World J Surg. 2014;38:2753-2760. doi: 10.1007/s00268-014-2687-8
48. Riess H, Kraft-Todd G. EMPATHY: a tool to enhance nonverbal communication between clinicians and their patients. Acad Med. 2014;89:1108–12.
Doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000287.
49. Batt-Rawden SA, Chisolm MS, Anton B, Flickinger TE. teaching empathy to medical students: an updated, systematic review. Acad Med. 2013:88(8):1171-1177.
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318299f3e3
50. Stepien KA, Baernstein A. Educating for empathy: a review. J Gen Intern Med. 2006;21:524-530. doi: 10.111/j.1525-1497.2006.00443.x
51. Kataoka H, Iwase T, Ogawa H, et al. Can communication skills training improve empathy? A six-year longitudinal study of medical students in Japan. Med Teach. 2019;41(2):195-200.
Doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2018.1460657
52. Harden RM. Twelve tips on teaching and learning how to break bad news. Med Teach. 1996;18(4):275–8. Doi: 10.3109/ 0142159 9609034177
53. Bylund CL, Makoul G. Empathic communication and gender in the physician-patient encounter. Patient Educ Couns. 2002;48:207-216. doi: 10.1016/s0738-3991(02)00173-8
54. Varkey P, Chutka DS, Lesnick TG. The Aging Game: improving medical students' attitudes toward caring for the elderly. J American Med Direct Assoc. 2006;7: 224-229.
doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2005.07.009.
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