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Differences and changes in the empathy of Korean medical students according to gender and vocational aptitude, before and after clerkship

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is any change in the empathy scores of third-year medical graduate students after they have taken a clerkship and have begun gaining more opportunities to meet patients through the clerkship. METHODS: The participants were 109 third-ye...

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Autor principal: Yeo, Sanghee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Medical Education 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31813200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2019.144
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description PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is any change in the empathy scores of third-year medical graduate students after they have taken a clerkship and have begun gaining more opportunities to meet patients through the clerkship. METHODS: The participants were 109 third-year students in 2014 and 110 fourth-year students in 2015 at Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine. The author measured empathy using a modified and expanded version of the Korean version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy of Physician Empathy-Student version and used the Holland-III aptitude test-S to assess vocational aptitude. RESULTS: As a results, male students in their third year exhibited higher scores, but there was no significant difference in the fourth year. The empathy score increased slightly when third-year students became fourth-year students, but the difference was not statistically significant. There was no statistically significant change in the scores of both male and female students between the 2 years. The results of the vocational aptitude test showed that students who preferred person-oriented specialties had higher empathy scores when they entered their fourth academic year compared to objectively-oriented students. CONCLUSION: In this study, male students showed higher empathy scores than female students, an atypical finding that was inconsistent with the results of previous studies. However, the distribution of scores among male students was wider than that of female students, a finding consistent with previous studies. As such, individual differences need to be considered when developing curriculum in order to improve the empathy of medical students.
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spelling pubmed-69003502019-12-12 Differences and changes in the empathy of Korean medical students according to gender and vocational aptitude, before and after clerkship Yeo, Sanghee Korean J Med Educ Original Research PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is any change in the empathy scores of third-year medical graduate students after they have taken a clerkship and have begun gaining more opportunities to meet patients through the clerkship. METHODS: The participants were 109 third-year students in 2014 and 110 fourth-year students in 2015 at Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine. The author measured empathy using a modified and expanded version of the Korean version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy of Physician Empathy-Student version and used the Holland-III aptitude test-S to assess vocational aptitude. RESULTS: As a results, male students in their third year exhibited higher scores, but there was no significant difference in the fourth year. The empathy score increased slightly when third-year students became fourth-year students, but the difference was not statistically significant. There was no statistically significant change in the scores of both male and female students between the 2 years. The results of the vocational aptitude test showed that students who preferred person-oriented specialties had higher empathy scores when they entered their fourth academic year compared to objectively-oriented students. CONCLUSION: In this study, male students showed higher empathy scores than female students, an atypical finding that was inconsistent with the results of previous studies. However, the distribution of scores among male students was wider than that of female students, a finding consistent with previous studies. As such, individual differences need to be considered when developing curriculum in order to improve the empathy of medical students. Korean Society of Medical Education 2019-12 2019-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6900350/ /pubmed/31813200 http://dx.doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2019.144 Text en © The Korean Society of Medical Education. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Differences and changes in the empathy of Korean medical students according to gender and vocational aptitude, before and after clerkship
title_short Differences and changes in the empathy of Korean medical students according to gender and vocational aptitude, before and after clerkship
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31813200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3946/kjme.2019.144
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