ESIC Medical College & PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai, 600078, India.
Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College & PGIMSR, KK Nagar, Chennai, 600078, India.
BMC Med Educ. 2018 May 4;18(1):97. doi: 10.1186/s12909-018-1213-3.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability of a person to understand and respond to one's own and others' emotions and use this understanding to guide one's thoughts and actions. To assess the level of emotional intelligence of medical students in a medical college in Chennai and to explore their understanding of the role of emotions in medical practice.
A quantitative, cross sectional, questionnaire based, survey was conducted among 207 medical students in a college in Chennai, India using the Quick Emotional Intelligence Self Assessment Test and some hypothetical emotional clinical vignettes. This was followed by a qualitative moderated fish-bowl discussion to elicit the opinion of medical students on role of emotions in the practice of medicine.
The mean score of Emotional Intelligence was 107.58 (SD 16.44) out of a maximum possible score of 160. Students who went to government schools for high school education had greater emotional intelligence than students from private schools (p = 0.044) and women were more emotionally intelligent in their response to emotional vignettes than men (p = 0.056). The fish bowl discussion highlighted several positive and negative impacts of emotions in clinical care. The students concluded at the end of the discussion that emotions are inevitable in the practice of medicine and a good physician should know how to handle them.
Medical students, both men and women, had good level of emotional intelligence in the college that was studied. Students from collectivist social settings like government high schools have better emotional intelligence, which may indicate that a collectivist, community oriented medical education can serve the same purpose. Though students have diverse opinions on the role of emotions in clinical care, cognitive reflection exercises can help them understand its importance.
情绪智力是一个人理解和回应自己和他人情绪的能力，并利用这种理解来指导自己的思想和行动。评估一所钦奈医学院医学生的情绪智力水平，并探讨他们对情绪在医学实践中作用的理解。
在印度钦奈的一所学院中，使用快速情绪智力自我评估测试和一些假设的情绪临床案例，对 207 名医学生进行了定量、横断面、基于问卷的调查。随后进行了定性的有主持人的鱼缸讨论，以了解医学生对情绪在医学实践中作用的看法。
情绪智力的平均得分为 107.58（SD 16.44），满分 160。在高中就读于公立学校的学生比就读于私立学校的学生情绪智力更高（p=0.044），而女性在对情绪案例的反应中比男性更具情绪智力（p=0.056）。鱼缸讨论突出了情绪在临床护理中的一些积极和消极影响。学生们在讨论结束时得出结论，情绪在医学实践中是不可避免的，一个好的医生应该知道如何处理它们。
在研究的学院中，医学生，无论男女，都具有良好的情绪智力水平。来自集体主义社会环境（如公立学校）的学生具有更好的情绪智力，这可能表明集体主义、面向社区的医学教育可以达到同样的目的。尽管学生对情绪在临床护理中的作用有不同的看法，但认知反思练习可以帮助他们理解其重要性。
