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- Title
NIVELES DE EMPATÍA Y ÉTICA PROFESIONAL EN CANDIDATOS A SUBESPECIALIDAD MÉDICA.
- Authors
Jiménez-López, José Luis; Arenas-Osuna, Jesús; Ángeles-Garay, Ulises
- Abstract
The current perception of a dehumanized medical attention and its low quality has questioned the empathic capacity and ethics of the health professionals. The research in this field reports variations in this attributes along the doctors' education. Objective: to explore the global levels of empathy and professional ethics, as well as the levels of each component of both attributes in a sample of applicants to a medical graduate program. Methodology: 65 residents that applied for graduation studies in a very specialized medical unit were included. As part of the application process, they answered the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Test and the Professional Ethical Attitudes Scale. Results: The average scores of the sample got Average in empathy and Optimal in professional ethics. The comparison by gender, specialty and competences showed less affective and better ethical competence in women, more cognitive empathy in surgical specialties, and in general an absence of correlation between the two variables and specifically by competence. Conclusions: The importance of measuring the specific competences of each attribute is highlighted given that the variation in specific competences impact in different aspects the doctor's education, as the specialty choice, the student selection, the development of academic programs and the adequate learning about the construction of an effective relation doctor-patient. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Socialess.
- Publication
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 2, p372
- ISSN
2216-1201
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21501/22161201.1970