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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grosseman, Suely
• Novack, Dennis H
• Duke, Pamela
• Mennin, Stewart
• Rosenzweig, Steven
• Davis, Tiffany J
• Hojat, Mohammadreza

Titel

Residents’ and standardized patients’ perspectives on empathy: Issues of agreement

Ist Teil von

• Patient education and counseling, 2014-07, Vol.96 (1), p.22-28

Ort / Verlag

Ireland: Elsevier Ireland Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Objective We investigated correlations between residents’ scores on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), residents’ perceptions of their empathy during standardized-patient encounters, and the perceptions of standardized patients. Methods Participants were 214 first-year residents in internal medicine or family medicine from 13 residency programs taking standardized patient-based clinical skills assessment in 2011. We analyzed correlations between residents’ JSE scores; standardized patients’ perspectives on residents’ empathy during OSCE encounters, using the Jefferson Scale of Patient Perceptions of Physician Empathy; and residents’ perspectives on their own empathy, using a modified version of this scale. Results Residents’ JSE scores correlated with their perceptions of their own empathy during encounters but correlated poorly with patients’ assessments of resident empathy. Conclusion The poor correlation between residents’ and standardized patients’ assessments of residents’ empathy raises questions about residents’ abilities to gauge the effectiveness of their empathic communications. The study also points to a lack of congruence between the assessment of empathy by standardized patients and residents as receivers and conveyors of empathy, respectively. Practice implications This study adds to the literature on empathy as a teachable skill set and raises questions about use of OSCEs to assess trainee empathy.