Empathy in Internal Medicine Residents at Community-based Hospitals: A Cross-sectional Study.

Introduction: Many research reports revealed declining empathy in medical schools that continues in postgraduate years of training.

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the self-reported empathy levels of internal medicine (IM) residents in 3 community-based teaching hospitals.

Methods: The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, Health Professionals version, is an online, self-administered, questionnaire that was offered to 129 current and incoming residents at 1 osteopathic and 2 allopathic, IM training programs in Flint, Michigan.

Empathy Among Internal Medicine Residents in a Community-Based Training Program: A Pilot Study.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Empathy in patient care is a highly valuable skill that is promoted in medical education; however, research conducted in academic centers strongly suggests a declining trend in empathy as years of medical education increase.

Mobile technology for the facilitation of direct observation and assessment of student performance.

Background: We developed, implemented, and assessed a web-based clinical evaluation application (i.e., CEX app) for Internet-enabled mobile devices, including mobile phones.

The implementation of a mobile problem-specific electronic CEX for assessing directly observed student-patient encounters.

Background: Facilitating direct observation of medical students' clinical competencies is a pressing need.

Methods: We developed an electronic problem-specific Clinical Evaluation Exercise (eCEX) based on a national curriculum. We assessed its feasibility in monitoring and recording students' competencies and the impact of a grading incentive on the frequency of direct observations in an internal medicine clerkship.