EMPATHY IN CARIBBEAN MEDICAL STUDENTS ASSESSED USING THE TORONTO EMPATHY QUESTIONNAIRE
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Abstract
Introduction: Empathy is the emotional process to understand a patient's state of being and current emotion.Empathy, through humanization of medical students, plays an important role while learning and practicing the art of medicine.Our study aims to quantify empathy as an indicator of humanization, in medical students throughout their education.Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was performed on basic medical and clinical science students at Avalon University School of Medicine, Curacao.Standard Toronto Empathy Questionnaire [TEQ] was utilized to quantify the empathy.Results: Average TEQ scores of the basic students in MD1 -MD4 were 51.55 ± 4.16, 49.42±3.58,46.72±4.60,48.86±6.17respectively.Overall TEQ scores were slightly higher in basic science students in comparison to the clinical students (48.82 ± 5.12 vs 48.74 ± 4.01, P=0.46).Conclusions: Empathy scores were higher in basic science medical students in comparison to the clinical students.Lack of progression of empathy amongst medical students needs to be addressed.We recommend medical schools to adapt and instill the virtue of empathy in the course curriculum.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.038 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".