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- The study investigated whether medical humanities coursework could help medical students maintain or develop empathy during their education.
- Students who took an elective course in Medical Humanities showed more favorable changes in empathy scores compared to those who did not participate in such courses.
- The results indicated that while 71% of students without humanities courses showed no improvement or a decline in empathy, only 46% of those who did take the course experienced the same, suggesting a significant positive impact of the humanities on empathy development in medical students.
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Purpose: The primary focus of the study was to determine whether coursework in the medical humanities would ameliorate students' loss of and failure to develop empathy, a problem known to be common during medical education.
Methods: Students were offered an elective course in the Medical Humanities for academic credit. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy Student Version (JSE-S) was administered at the beginning and end of an academic year in which humanities courses were offered. Changes in JSE-S scores among students who studied Medical Humanities were compared with changes in student who did not take any humanities coursework.
Results: Medical humanities coursework correlated with superior empathy outcomes among the medical students. Of students not enrolled in humanities courses, 71% declined or failed to increase in JSE-S score over the academic year. Of those who took humanities coursework, 46% declined or failed to increase in JSE-S scores. The difference was statistically significant (P = .03). The medical humanities curriculum correlated with favorable empathy outcomes as measured by the JSE-S.
Conclusions: Elective medical humanities coursework correlated with improved empathy score outcomes in a group of US medical students. This may reflect a direct effect of the humanities coursework. Alternately, students' elective choice to take medical humanities coursework may be a marker for students with a propensity to favorable empathy outcomes.
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