Associations of medical student empathy with clinical competence

Highlights • Empathy predicted communication scores on Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). • Associations between empathy and overall OSCE scores were confounded by gender and age. • Empathy was positively associated with the Pediatrics clerkship score, but not other clerkships. • Se...

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Published in:Patient education and counseling 2017-04, Vol.100 (4), p.742-747
Main Authors: Casas, Rachel S, Xuan, Ziming, Jackson, Angela H, Stanfield, Lorraine E, Harvey, Nanette C, Chen, Daniel C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Boston
Clinical Competence
Clinical skills assessment
Communication
Communication skills
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Educational Measurement
Empathy
Female
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Medical education-assessment/evaluation
Medical education-undergraduate
Nursing
Physician-Patient Relations
Students, Medical - psychology
Young Adult
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Summary:Highlights • Empathy predicted communication scores on Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs). • Associations between empathy and overall OSCE scores were confounded by gender and age. • Empathy was positively associated with the Pediatrics clerkship score, but not other clerkships. • Self-reported empathy did not predict United States Medical Licensing Exam scores.
ISSN:0738-3991
1873-5134
DOI:10.1016/j.pec.2016.11.006