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Can empathy be pres...
Can empathy be preserved in medical education?
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- Seeberger, Astrid (författare)
- Karolinska Inst, Dept Clin Sci Intervent & Technol CLINTEC, Div Renal Med, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Lönn, Annalena (författare)
- Karolinska Inst, Dept Clin Sci Intervent & Technol CLINTEC, Div Renal Med, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Hult, Håkan (författare)
- Karolinska Inst, Dept Clin Sci Intervent & Technol CLINTEC, Div Renal Med, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Weurlander, Maria, 1969- (författare)
- KTH,Lärande
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- Wernerson, Annika (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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Karolinska Inst, Dept Clin Sci Intervent & Technol CLINTEC, Div Renal Med, Stockholm, Sweden Lärande (creator_code:org_t)
- 2020-04-20
- 2020
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: International Journal of Medical Education. - : INT JOURNAL MEDICAL EDUCATION-IJML. - 2042-6372. ; 11, s. 83-89
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Abstract
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- Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate changes in empathy during medical education, as well as to identify promoters and inhibitors of empathy and analyse their roles. Methods: We used qualitative content analysis to examine 69 critically reflective essays written by medical students as a part of their final examination at the end of the medical program. The essays were based on previous self-evaluations performed each term and represented retrospective reflections on their professional development. Results: A majority of the students felt that their empathy did not decrease during medical education. On the contrary, many felt that their empathy had increased, especially the cognitive part of empathy, without loss of affective empathy. Many of them described a professionalisation process resulting in an ability to meet patients with preserved empathy but without being overwhelmed by emotions. They identified several factors that promoted the development of empathy: a multiplicity of patients, positive role models, and educational activities focusing on reflection and self-awareness. They also identified inhibitors of empathy: lack of professional competence and a stressful and empathy-hostile medical culture. Conclusions: Our analysis of these retrospective reflections by students suggests that empathy can be preserved during medical education, despite the presence of important inhibitors of empathy. This finding might be due to the presence of more potent promoters and/or to the fact that educational activities might result in a decreased susceptibility to empathy-decreasing circumstances.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Lärande (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Educational Sciences -- Learning (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Empathy
- professionalisation
- medical education
- students' experiences
- reflection
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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