EmpathicCare4All. Study protocol for the development of an educational intervention for medical and interpreting students on empathic communication in interpreter-mediated medical consultations. A study based on the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework phases 0–2

Abstract

EmpathicCare4All. Study protocol for the development of an educational intervention for medical and interpreting students on empathic communication in interpreter-mediated medical consultations. A study based on the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework phases 0-2.

The professional interpreter’s effect on empathic communication in medical consultations: A qualitative analysis of interaction

“…This finding confirms that many doctors have not received any training on how to hold IMCs [42]. It also highlights the need for interprofessional education for medical and interpreting students on interpreter-mediated clinical communication where both groups of students learn about, from and with each other and become acquainted with the interactional practices and communicative goals attached to each other's profession [32].…”

“…The interpreter's focus on the processing of meaning (allowing for more flexibility in renditions) when combined with the interpreter's inability to correctly assess the communicative function of patients' statements of emotion might have significant practice implications possibly leading to the patients' 'lifeworld' being muted. Interpreter renditions of this kind are more likely to be eliminated by longer periods of training [27], preferably by means of interprofessional education [32], ideally complemented by post-consultation talk with the doctor in the workplace.…”

Emotion work in interpreter-mediated consultations: A systematic literature review

“…The inclusion and exclusion criteria of this systematic literature review are in line with the scope of the EmpathicCare4All-project [16] within which this study was conducted.…”

“…In this review, we set out to gather all available evidence in the literature of the ways in which patients, physicians and professional interpreters display emotions, react to emotional display and/or coordinate the interactional process of EC in IMCs. Even though we hypothesized that research on this topic would be limited and scattered among different fields, we choose to conduct a systematic literature review to create an overview of all existing knowledge that could serve as a solid basis for future research on the subject matter [16]. In this systematic literature review we seek to provide a response to the following question:…”

Patient interviews in interprofessional and intercultural contexts (PinKo) – project report on interdisciplinary competence development in students of medicine, pharmacy, and community interpreting

“…This expansion of interprofessional training with the vision of improved culturally sensitive medical practice is unique in the German-speaking world. On an international level, only the research project “EmpathicCare4All” at the universities of Leuven and Ghent in Belgium can be mentioned here; it develops comparable courses according to IPE for medical and interpreting students [ 22 ].…”