Development and piloting of a Situational Judgement Test for emotion-handling skills using the Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences (VR-CoDES)

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The role of the emotive, moral, and cognitive components for the prediction of medical students’ empathic behavior in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

“…students were invited to help us develop new assessment instruments for medical education. However, women were overrepresented in our sample [43] and female students achieved higher empathy scores than male students, which is concordant with other findings in the literature. Possible reasons could be sociocultural and social learning factors.…”

“…We conducted an experimental study at LMU Munich to develop and validate a SJT to assess medical students' empathy [43] and an OSCE to assess communication skills in the field of general medical practice [57]. Medical students from all study years were invited.…”

“…57 points). The development, validation and psychometric properties of the SJT have been described elsewhere [43].…”

“…A specific instrument to assess 'non-academic' attributes like empathy is the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) [40]. SJTs were initially developed for selection purposes but appear a feasible approach for assessing communication skills [41][42][43]. SJTs are based on the behavioral consistency theory, which implies that anticipated behavior can predict future behavior [44].…”

History-taking revisited: Simple techniques to foster patient collaboration, improve data attainment, and establish trust with the patient

“…Trust is the cornerstone of patient-physician relationship and makes the patient-physician encounter more effective. Trust also makes the patients journey through illness easier with less anxiety [ 4 ], [ 5 ], [ 6 ], [ 7 ].…”