Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-Dong, Dong Dae Moon-Gu, 130-702, Seoul, South Korea.
BMC Med Educ. 2012 Dec 17;12:122. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-122.
This study aims to determine the correlation between medical education systems, medical college (MC) and medical school (MS), and empathy by investigating the changes in empathy among students with each additional year of medical education.
The subjects were MC and MS students who had participated in the same study the previous year. All participants completed the same self-report instruments: a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, and the Korean edition of the Student Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-S-K), Among 334 students, the final analysis was conducted on the data provided by 113 MC and 120 MS students, excluding 101 with incomplete data.
The age and sex did not affect the changes in empathy. Though the JSE-S-K score of MS was significantly higher than that of MC in initial investigation, this study found no difference of empathy between MC and MS.
Empathy increased significantly after one year of medical education. The difference between two education systems, MC and MS, did not affect the changes in empathy.
本研究旨在通过调查医学教育年限增加对医学生同理心的影响,确定医学教育体系、医学院(MC)和医科大学(MS)与同理心之间的相关性。
本研究的对象为去年参加过同一研究的 MC 和 MS 学生。所有参与者都完成了相同的自我报告工具:一份社会人口统计学特征问卷和韩文版的 Jefferson 同理心量表学生版(JSE-S-K)。在 334 名学生中,最终分析了 113 名 MC 和 120 名 MS 学生的数据,排除了 101 名数据不完整的学生。
年龄和性别并不影响同理心的变化。尽管在初始调查中,MS 的 JSE-S-K 得分明显高于 MC,但本研究并未发现 MC 和 MS 之间同理心存在差异。
医学教育一年后同理心显著增加。MC 和 MS 两种教育体系的差异并不影响同理心的变化。