Team Emotional Intelligence, Team Interactions, and Gender in Medical Students During a Psychiatry Clerkship.

Objective: This study examined the relationship between team emotional intelligence, quality of team interactions, and gender.

Methods: Psychiatry clerkship students participating in Team-Based Learning (TBL, n = 484) or no TBL (control, n = 265) completed the Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile (WEIP-S) and the Team Performance Scale (TPS).

Results: Significant correlations (p < 0.

Qualitative analysis of medical student impressions of a narrative exercise in the third-year psychiatry clerkship.

Purpose: Clinical clerkship directors and faculty undertake the challenge of teaching patient-centered communication to students who face the enormous doctor-centered task of learning diagnostic medicine. The authors examined students' written reactions to the narrative exercise, which, drawing from narrative medicine and narrative therapy, challenges students to be more patient-centered by writing a patient's life story and sharing it with that patient.

Method: During one-half of an academic year (2008-2009), the authors used qualitative methods to explore the range of medical student experiences with the narrative exercise in the psychiatry clerkship.