Ruth Goldwater's research while affiliated with The University of Edinburgh and other places
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Publication (1)
A group of 156 first year medical students completed measures of emotional intelligence (EI) and physician empathy, and a scale assessing their feelings about a communications skills course component. Females scored significantly higher than males on EI. Exam performance in the autumn term on a course component (Health and Society) covering general...
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... Although empathy is recognised as essential in healthcare, there is limited evidence in the literature regarding its correlation with academic success. Some studies of medical students have shown no correlation between empathy and academic success (Austin et al., 2005;Benabbas, 2016;Finn et al., 2018), while others have shown a positive correlation (Hojat et al., 2002;Jang et al., 2010). Concerns about a decline in empathy through training have led to calls for educational improvements in healthcare education (Spiro, 2009;Nunes et al., 2011;Ferri et al., 2017;Shoemaker et al., 2022). ...
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