Personality traits are associated with cognitive empathy in medical students but not with its evolution and interventions to improve it.

Objective: Cognitive empathy might decrease during medical school. Factors associated with its evolution remain poorly understood, as well as whether such factors could moderate the effect of an intervention to preserve cognitive empathy. The aim was to explore the associations between personality traits and both cognitive empathy at baseline and its changes at follow-up.

Impact of integrating objective structured clinical examination into academic student assessment: Large-scale experience in a French medical school.

Purpose: Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE) evaluate clinical reasoning, communication skills, and interpersonal behavior during medical education. In France, clinical training has long relied on bedside clinical practice in academic hospitals. The need for a simulated teaching environment has recently emerged, due to the increasing number of students admitted to medical schools, and the necessity of objectively evaluating practical skills.

Balint groups and narrative medicine compared to a control condition in promoting students' empathy.

Background: The perceived importance of clinical empathy may decline among students during medical training. Several interventions have been shown to be effective in promoting or preserving medical students' empathic abilities, such as empathy skills training or Balint groups. Although narrative medicine training shares some features with these interventions, no randomized study to date examined the efficacy of narrative medicine training.

Patient-Physician Agreement in Reporting and Prioritizing Existing Chronic Conditions.

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to assess (1) the agreement between patient self-reports and general practitioner (GP) reports of the chronic conditions affecting the patients and (2) the agreement between patients and GPs on health priorities in a primary care setting.

Method: Patients were recruited in the Parisian area of France by a convenience sample of GPs; eligibility criteria required that the GP was the patient's listed primary care provider for at least 12 months. Participants were asked to report all the patient's current chronic conditions by using a previously developed list of 124 chronic conditions and write a list of up to 3 priority conditions.

Promoting empathy among medical students: A two-site randomized controlled study.

Objective: To assess the effects of Balint groups on empathy measured by the Consultation And Relational Empathy Measure (CARE) scale rated by standardized patients during objective structured clinical examination and self-rated Jefferson's School Empathy Scale - Medical Student (JSPE-MS©) among fourth-year medical students.

Methods: A two-site randomized controlled trial were planned, from October 2015 to December 2015 at Paris Diderot and Paris Descartes University, France. Eligible students were fourth-year students who gave their consent to participate.

'Intern life': a longitudinal study of burnout, empathy, and coping strategies used by French GPs in training.

Background: More than half of French medical GP trainees (GPTs) suffer from burnout.

Aim: To define and follow the evolution of risk factors, such as empathy and coping strategies, associated with burnout in this population.

Design & Setting: Prospective longitudinal study involving volunteers of 577 Parisian university GPTs in 2012.

Exclusion of patients with concomitant chronic conditions in ongoing randomised controlled trials targeting 10 common chronic conditions and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov: a systematic review of registration details.

Objectives: To systematically assess registration details of ongoing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) targeting 10 common chronic conditions and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov and to determine the prevalence of (1) trial records excluding patients with concomitant chronic condition(s) and (2) those specifically targeting patients with concomitant chronic conditions.

Design: Systematic review of trial registration records.

Potential workload in applying clinical practice guidelines for patients with chronic conditions and multimorbidity: a systematic analysis.

Objectives: To describe the potential workload for patients with multimorbidity when applying existing clinical practice guidelines.

Design: Systematic analysis of clinical practice guidelines for chronic conditions and simulation modelling approach.

Data Sources: National Guideline Clearinghouse index of US clinical practice guidelines.

Suspected community-acquired pneumonia in an ambulatory setting (CAPA): a French prospective observational cohort study in general practice.

Background: Few studies have addressed the pragmatic management of ambulatory patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) using a precise description of the disease with or without chest X-ray (X-ray) evidence.

Aims: To describe the characteristics, clinical findings, additional investigations and disease progression in patients with suspected CAP managed by French General Practitioners (GPs).

Methods: The patients included were older than 18 years, with signs or symptoms suggestive of CAP associated with recent-onset unilateral crackles on auscultation or a new opacity on X-ray.

Quality of life and illness perception in primary biliary cirrhosis: a controlled cross-sectional study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to understand better the quality of life (QOL) and illness perception in women with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) through a comparison with women having diabetes.

Methods: One hundred and ninety-four women took part in this study: 130 with PBC, 64 with type 2 diabetes. They were administered the SF-12 to measure QOL and the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire to assess representations of their illness.

Reporting funding source or conflict of interest in abstracts of randomized controlled trials, no evidence of a large impact on general practitioners' confidence in conclusions, a three-arm randomized controlled trial.

Background: Systematic reporting of funding sources is recommended in the CONSORT Statement for abstracts. However, no specific recommendation is related to the reporting of conflicts of interest (CoI). The objective was to compare physicians' confidence in the conclusions of abstracts of randomized controlled trials of pharmaceutical treatment indexed in PubMed.