Evolution of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence During a Doctor-patient Relationship Training

Background: Empathic skills of medical students decrease during their studies. Besides, communication skills training is French context. In this context doctor-patient relationship training was built at Paris Descartes University for the 4th year medical students. Implementation of this training aims at maintaining or even increasing empathic and emotional skills of students. Objective: to evaluate effectiveness of this training on medical students skills, knowledge and attitudes. Methodology: Interventional and longitudinal monocentric study Pre/post-test auto-assessment for * empathic skills score assessed with the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy- Medical Student Version (JSPE-MS) * emotional intelligence's score assessed with the Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES) * students' declarative knowledge of the doctor-patient relationship assessed with multiple choice question. Post-test assessement for: * empathic skills assessed by simulated patients with CARE grid during the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). * satisfaction auto-questionnaire. * socio-demographic and education data.