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Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Promoted by the Selection Process in 1st Year of Health Studies at the Paris University Medical School

NCT04180891 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2019-11-29

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Summary

As the interpersonal skills such as empathy and emotional intelligence take more and more importance in the medical education, the Paris University of Medicine has introduced for the first time in 2019 some multiple mini-interviews (MMI) in addition to the traditional written examination, to graduate the 1st year student in health studies.

The selection process aims at promoting students with high academic results but also with good interpersonal abilities. In this new selection process, MMI will be used in addition to written tests, but only to attribute the last places available after a first ranking based on academic results.

So after the written examination, students with the best written exam marks will directly graduate, others will require MMI to graduate and some will directly fail.

The main hypothesis is that this selection procedure may promote stronger interpersonal abilities profiles in the group that succeed to enter one of the health studies course than in the group that failed.

This study will measure the clinical empathy and emotional intelligence abilities of all the 1st year students applying for this new selection process, using validate self-administered questionnaires.

Then the investigators will compare the scores of empathy and emotional intelligence in the group that succeed the selection process, to the group that failed. Furthermore, in the success group, the investigators will compare the scores between students that directly graduated and students that required MMI. Scores will also be compared considering some sociodemographic data.

The result of that studies could give strong arguments to modify the selection process and extend the use of MMI in medical school in France.

Conditions

  • Health Studies First-year Course Selection

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philippe Jaury, Pr · Paris Descartes University of Medicine

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-02
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-06-30

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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