The doctor-patient relationship was becoming worse. More and more work-related violence has happened to physicians and nurses. A portion of medical students felt depressed and thought that the career future was gloomy. The study was designed to measure the empathy, an vital element of professionalism, well-being of mental and study emotion. Furthermore, the investigators explored an intervention of group study to promote medical students' professionalism, mental health and study emotion.
A total number of 200 junior medical students are going to be enrolled according to inclusive criteria. They are divided into two groups, one group is given education about medical humanities when the other group is not given any intervention but the same room and time.The outcomes including empathy, depression, quality of life, burnout and self-efficiency are measured before, during and after the trial.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
200
The medical students in the intervention group would gain education about the medical humanities, but not the control group.
Medical students' empathy
we plan to use the scale"The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy" to measure medical students' empathy
Time frame: 3 months
Medical students' burnout
we plan to use the scale"Maslach Burnout Inventory" to measure medical students' burnout
Time frame: 3 months
Quality of life of Medical students
we plan to use the scale"MOS SF-8 Health Survey" to measure medical students' quality of life
Time frame: 3 months
Medical students' self-efficiency
we plan to use the "General Self-Efficacy Scale" to measure medical students' self-efficiency
Time frame: 3 months
Medical students' depression
we plan to use the "Patient Health Questionnaire-9" to measure medical students' depression
Time frame: 3 months
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