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Dufayet L, Piot MA, Geoffroy PA, Oulès B, Petitjean-Brichant C, Peiffer-Smadja N, Bouzid D, Tran Dinh A, Mirault T, Faye A, Lemogne C, Ruszniewski P, Peyre H, Vodovar D. CARECOS study: Medical students' empathy as assessed with the CARE measure by examiners versus standardized patients during a formative Objective and Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) station. Med Teach 2024:1-9. [PMID: 38285021 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2024.2306840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
Abstract
PURPOSE To assess the Consultation And Relational Empathy (CARE) measure as a tool for examiners to assess medical students' empathy during Objective and Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), as the best tool for assessing empathy during OSCEs remains unknown. METHODS We first assessed the psychometric properties of the CARE measure, completed simultaneously by examiners and standardized patients (SP, either teachers - SPteacher - or civil society members - SPcivil society), for each student, at the end of an OSCE station. We then assessed the qualitative/quantitative agreement between examiners and SP. RESULTS We included 129 students, distributed in eight groups, four groups for each SP type. The CARE measure showed satisfactory psychometric properties in the context of the study but moderate, and even poor inter-rater reliability for some items. Considering paired observations, examiners scored lower than SPs (p < 0.001) regardless of the SP type. However, the difference in score was greater when the SP was a SPteacher rather than a SPcivil society (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION Despite acceptable psychometric properties, inter-rater reliability of the CARE measure between examiners and SP was unsatisfactory. The choice of examiner as well as the type of SP seems critical to ensure a fair measure of empathy during OSCEs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Laurene Dufayet
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Unité Médico-judiciaire, Hôtel-Dieu, AP-HP, Paris, France
- Centre Antipoison de Paris, Hôpital Fernand-Widal, AP-HP, Paris, France
- INSERM, UMRS-1144, Faculté de pharmacie, Paris, France
| | - Marie-Aude Piot
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Département de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, Hôpital Necker, AP-HP, Paris, France
- INSERM, UMR 1018, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif cedex, France
| | - Pierre-Alexis Geoffroy
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Département de psychiatrie et d'addictologie, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France
- Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Hôpital Saint-Anne, GHU Paris, Paris, France
- Université de Paris, NeuroDiderot, Inserm, FHU I2-D2, Paris, France
| | - Bénédicte Oulès
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de dermatologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France
| | - Clara Petitjean-Brichant
- Département de psychiatrie et d'addictologie, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France
| | - Nathan Peiffer-Smadja
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, INSERM UMR1137, IAME, Paris, France
| | - Donia Bouzid
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Université Paris Cité, INSERM UMR1137, IAME, Paris, France
- Service d'accueil des urgences, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France
| | - Alexy Tran Dinh
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Département d'anesthésie-réanimation, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France
| | - Tristan Mirault
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de médecine vasculaire, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
| | - Albert Faye
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de Pédiatrie générale, Maladies infectieuses et Médecine interne, Hôpital Robert Debré, AP-HP, Paris, France
| | - Cédric Lemogne
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de Psychiatrie de l'adulte, AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
- Center for Research in Epidemiology and StatisticS (CRESS), Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, INSERM, INRAE, Paris, France
| | - Philippe Ruszniewski
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de gastro-entérologie et pancréatologie, Hôpital Beaujon AP-HP, Clichy, France
| | - Hugo Peyre
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Service de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, Hôpital Robert Debré, APHP, Paris, France
- INSERM UMR 1141, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
| | - Dominique Vodovar
- UFR de médecine, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Centre Antipoison de Paris, Hôpital Fernand-Widal, AP-HP, Paris, France
- INSERM, UMRS-1144, Faculté de pharmacie, Paris, France
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