Health Studies First-year Course Selection Clinical Trial
— PREMISOfficial title:
Profiles of Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Promoted by Written Examination Combined to Oral Interviews During the Selection of 1st Year Health Students at the Paris University of Medicine
Verified date | November 2019 |
Source | University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
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.
Status | Enrolling by invitation |
Enrollment | 1000 |
Est. completion date | June 2020 |
Est. primary completion date | June 2020 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - students registered in the first year of heath studies in Paris University Medical School Exclusion Criteria: - refusal of consent |
Country | Name | City | State |
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France | Paris University of Medicine | Paris | Ile De France |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Empathy score | Empathy score will be measured by Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) Student version and compared between group "success" and group "failure". | through study completion, an average of 1 year | |
Secondary | Secondary empathy score (1) | Score at the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) compared between group "success" and group "failure". | through study completion, an average of 1 year | |
Secondary | Secondary empathy score (2) | Score at the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) compared between group "success" and group "failure". | through study completion, an average of 1 year | |
Secondary | Emotional intelligence score | Score at the Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES) compared between group "success" and group "failure". | through study completion, an average of 1 year |