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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Empathy in Healthcare
  • Communication Skills Training

Background:

  • Empathy decline in medical students is a recognized concern, often based on self-reported data.
  • Recent studies question this decline, highlighting discrepancies between self-assessment and observed behaviors.
  • Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) offer a platform to evaluate observed empathy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare observed empathy in medical students across different years of clinical clerkship.
  • To investigate the phenomenon of empathy decline using objective measures rather than self-administered instruments.

Main Methods:

  • Medical students from the first and second year of clinical clerkships at Stanford University participated.
  • Trained faculty observed students during an OSCE, using the Measure of Patient-Centered Communication (MPCC) to assess empathic behaviors.
  • Statistical analyses examined correlations between observed empathy and clerkship year, gender, and specialty preference.

Main Results:

  • No significant difference in observed empathy was found between first and second-year students.
  • A trend towards higher empathy scores in second-year students emerged, becoming significant after adjusting for outliers (p=0.05).
  • Students preferring 'people-oriented' specialties showed higher scores in managing patient frustration.

Conclusions:

  • Observed empathic behaviors did not decrease in the second year of clerkship training.
  • The study highlights a potential discrepancy between self-reported empathy and observed empathic behaviors.
  • Further research is recommended to explore this divergence and its implications for medical training.