Medical Education Intervention for Medical Students

Overview

The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.

Full Title of Study: “Intervention to Promote Medical Students Empathy, Well-being and Study emotion-a Randomized Clinical Trial.”

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Masking: Single (Participant)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: September 2016

Detailed Description

A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.

Interventions

  • Other: Education of medical humanities
    • The medical students in the intervention group would gain education about the medical humanities, but not the control group.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: intervention group
    • Medical students rolled into this group would accept education of medical humanities.
  • No Intervention: control group
    • Medical students rolled into this group would not gain education of medical humanities.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Medical students’ empathy
    • Time Frame: 3 months
    • we plan to use the scale”The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy” to measure medical students’ empathy

Secondary Measures

  • Medical students’ burnout
    • Time Frame: 3 months
    • we plan to use the scale”Maslach Burnout Inventory” to measure medical students’ burnout
  • Quality of life of Medical students
    • Time Frame: 3 months
    • we plan to use the scale”MOS SF-8 Health Survey” to measure medical students’ quality of life
  • Medical students’ self-efficiency
    • Time Frame: 3 months
    • we plan to use the “General Self-Efficacy Scale” to measure medical students’ self-efficiency
  • Medical students’ depression
    • Time Frame: 3 months
    • we plan to use the “Patient Health Questionnaire-9” to measure medical students’ depression

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1 age 18 to 25 years – 2 junior students majoring in clinical medicine – 3 no mental diseases previously Exclusion Criteria:

  • Did not meet inclusion criteria

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 25 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Ming Kuang
  • Collaborator
    • Sun Yat-sen University
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor-Investigator: Ming Kuang, Professor – Sun Yat-sen University

References

Schwenk TL, Davis L, Wimsatt LA. Depression, stigma, and suicidal ideation in medical students. JAMA. 2010 Sep 15;304(11):1181-90. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1300.

Reed DA, Shanafelt TD, Satele DW, Power DV, Eacker A, Harper W, Moutier C, Durning S, Massie FS Jr, Thomas MR, Sloan JA, Dyrbye LN. Relationship of pass/fail grading and curriculum structure with well-being among preclinical medical students: a multi-institutional study. Acad Med. 2011 Nov;86(11):1367-73. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182305d81.

Chen D, Lew R, Hershman W, Orlander J. A cross-sectional measurement of medical student empathy. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Oct;22(10):1434-8. doi: 10.1007/s11606-007-0298-x. Epub 2007 Jul 26.

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