NDLI: Emotional intelligence among medical students: a mixed methods study from Chennai, India

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Sundararajan, Subashini Gopichandran, Vijayaprasad
Abstract	Background Emotional Intelligence is the ability of a person to understand and respond to one’s own and others’ emotions and use this understanding to guide one’s thoughts and actions. To assess the level of emotional intelligence of medical students in a medical college in Chennai and to explore their understanding of the role of emotions in medical practice. Methods A quantitative, cross sectional, questionnaire based, survey was conducted among 207 medical students in a college in Chennai, India using the Quick Emotional Intelligence Self Assessment Test and some hypothetical emotional clinical vignettes. This was followed by a qualitative moderated fish-bowl discussion to elicit the opinion of medical students on role of emotions in the practice of medicine. Results The mean score of Emotional Intelligence was 107.58 (SD 16.44) out of a maximum possible score of 160. Students who went to government schools for high school education had greater emotional intelligence than students from private schools (p = 0.044) and women were more emotionally intelligent in their response to emotional vignettes than men (p = 0.056). The fish bowl discussion highlighted several positive and negative impacts of emotions in clinical care. The students concluded at the end of the discussion that emotions are inevitable in the practice of medicine and a good physician should know how to handle them. Conclusions Medical students, both men and women, had good level of emotional intelligence in the college that was studied. Students from collectivist social settings like government high schools have better emotional intelligence, which may indicate that a collectivist, community oriented medical education can serve the same purpose. Though students have diverse opinions on the role of emotions in clinical care, cognitive reflection exercises can help them understand its importance.
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Page Count	9
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ISSN	14726920
DOI	10.1186/s12909-018-1213-3
Journal	BMC Medical Education
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	18
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2018-05-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medical Education Theory of Medicine Bioethics Emotional intelligence Medical curriculum Doctor patient relationship Cognitive reflection Fish bowl discussion Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Medicine
Journal Impact Factor	2.7/2023
5-Year Journal Impact Factor	3.4/2023

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