Developing Emotional Intelligence Through a Longitudinal Leadership Curriculum in UME: Combating the Decline in Medical
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Developing Emotional Intelligence Through a Longitudinal Leadership Curriculum in UME: Combating the Decline in Medical Student Empathy Jeanne L. Jacoby 1 & Amy B. Smith 1 & Deborah J. DeWaay 2 & Robert D. Barraco 1 & Marna Rayl Greenberg 1 & Bryan G. Kane 1 & Jennifer E. Macfarlan 1 & Kevin R. Weaver 1 & Joann Farrell Quinn 2 Accepted: 12 October 2020 # International Association of Medical Science Educators 2020
Abstract We report on a novel curriculum (Scholarly Excellence, Leadership Experiences, Collaborative Training [SELECT]) in an allopathic medical school designed to prepare students to be physician leaders while remaining empathetic by combating burnout. SELECT students were surveyed annually. The survey contained the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). In this cohort, empathy did not decrease, as measured by the JSE, and SELECT students’ MBI Depersonalization burnout scores decreased after year 3. In summary, in this allopathic US medical school utilizing a novel curriculum, there was no significant decline in empathy after the third year of medical school. The SELECT program appears to mitigate the decline in empathy and increased Depersonalization burnout levels often seen at the end of the third year of medical school. Keywords Empathy . Medical students . Emotional intelligence . Leadership . Burnout
Background Over the past decade, there has been an increasing focus on leadership training and development at all stages of medical education [1, 2], yet focus on leadership and the underlying competencies remain limited in medical education curricula [3]. The SELECT (Scholarly Excellence, Leadership An abstract entitled, “A Preliminary Assessment of Empathy in First Year Medical Students” was presented as an oral presentation at AAMC 2016 Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA) Annual Meeting (April 13–16, 2016). In addition, an abstract entitled, “Longitudinal Leadership Development Reduces Empathy Loss in UME” was accepted for presentation as an Innovations abstract to the SGEA Annual Meeting (March 13, 2020). Lastly, an abstract entitled, “Applied learning of best practices from a UME leadership development program” was accepted as a Workshop to the SGEA Annual Meeting (March 13, 2020). * Jeanne L. Jacoby [email protected] 1
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network/University South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (USF-MCOM), Lehigh Valley Campus, Allentown, PA, USA
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University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine (USF-MCOM), Tampa Campus, Tampa, FL, USA
Experiences, Collaborative Training) Program was created at an allopathic US medical school to provide students with a longitudinal curriculum in emotional intelligence and leadership, health systems, and values-based patient-centered care. In the business world and among physician and nursing leaders, emotional intelligence (EI) training has been shown to improve leadership competencies, and thus EI is an overarching focus of the SELECT program [4–7]. The American A
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