Health Studies First-year Course SelectionPREMISNCT04180891
Empathy and Emotional Intelligence Promoted by the Selection Process in 1st Year of Health Studies at the Paris University Medical School
An observational study of Health Studies First-year Course Selection, run by University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes at 1 site in France.
Trial summary
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… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Any ageHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Health Studies First-year Course Selection
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine
- How many people
- 1,000 participants
- Where
- 1 siteFrance
- Study dates
- 2 Sep 2019to Jun 2020
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages Any age
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Study population: The study population will come from the all students enrolled in first year of health studies in the Paris University of Medicine for the academic year 2019/2020. All of the students can enter the study if the answer the questionnaires, regardless of age or gender.
Who may be able to join
- students registered in the first year of heath studies in Paris University Medical School
Who cannot join
- refusal of consent
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official 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
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.
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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.
Read the detailed description
INTRODUCTION : Considering empathy and emotional intelligence in the early stages of health studies has become a significant concern, all the more as empathy level among medicine students seems to decrease by the years. This loss of clinical empathy takes particularly place after the 3rd year of medicine studies, when students start being in contact with real patients. Starting from that, the investigators will study if the selection that occurs by the end of the 1st year of health studies in France, and which select students that can enter one of the course (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery), is designed to promote not only academic skills but also interpersonal abilities. That selection procedure is especially important because it will determine the profiles of health professionals that will enter medical course and will be the future practitioner. In order to to consider more the interpersonal abilities of the students during the selection process, some Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) have been introduced. The MMI will be used to attribute the last 20% of the places available (80% of the places will be directly attributed by the classic written examen)
METHODS : In this research, it will be proposed to all the 1st year health students registered in Paris University of medicine for the year 2019/2020 (about 1200 students) to complete four self-administered questionnaire : the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (student version),the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) and the Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES). The students will get a personal access to the questionnaires by their digital workspace on the University's website. By the end of the year, they will be separated in 2 groups : students that have succeeded to the selection process and that can enter one of the health course, and students that failed. Then the investigators will compare the scores of the several self-administered questionnaires in the 2 groups.
OBJECTIVE : That study wants to determine if the selection process in first year of health student in the Paris University of Medicine is able to promote students profiles with strong interpersonal abilities so as academics skills. That study will also try to determine if the introduction of MMI has an impact on the empathy scores of the selected students.
- Keywords
- empathy, emotional intelligence, multiple mini-interviews
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| successful test | Students that have successfully passed the test procedure (directly with written exam or after written and oral interviews) and that can enter one of the four medical courses of health studies (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery). | |
| failed test | Students that have failed to enter one of the four medical courses of health studies (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery) after the selection procedure. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Empathy score
Empathy score will be measured by Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) Student version and compared between group "success" and group "failure".
Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes (3)
Secondary empathy score (1)
Score at the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) compared between group "success" and group "failure".
Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary empathy score (2)
Score at the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) compared between group "success" and group "failure".
Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Emotional intelligence score
Score at the Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES) compared between group "success" and group "failure".
Measured: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted29 Nov 2019
- Study start2 Sep 2019
- Primary completionJun 2020 (estimated)
- Study completionJun 2020 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Health Studies First-year Course SelectionStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Enrolment
- 1,000 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Eloi Choisnet, University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes
- Investigators
- Philippe Jaury, Pr, Study director, Paris Descartes University of Medicine
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04180891
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- Empathy 7
- Acronym
- PREMIS
- Status last verified
- Nov 2019
- First submitted
- 23 Nov 2019
- Last updated
- 29 Nov 2019
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 29 Nov 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official 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
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT04180891
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- PREMIS / Empathy 7
- Keywords
- empathy, emotional intelligence, multiple mini-interviews
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 1,000 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- University of Paris 5 - Rene DescartesUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 2 Sep 2019 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Jun 2020 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Jun 2020 (estimated)
- First posted
- 29 Nov 2019 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
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.
Detailed description
INTRODUCTION : Considering empathy and emotional intelligence in the early stages of health studies has become a significant concern, all the more as empathy level among medicine students seems to decrease by the years. This loss of clinical empathy takes particularly place after the 3rd year of medicine studies, when students start being in contact with real patients. Starting from that, the investigators will study if the selection that occurs by the end of the 1st year of health studies in France, and which select students that can enter one of the course (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery), is designed to promote not only academic skills but also interpersonal abilities. That selection procedure is especially important because it will determine the profiles of health professionals that will enter medical course and will be the future practitioner. In order to to consider more the interpersonal abilities of the students during the selection process, some Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) have been introduced. The MMI will be used to attribute the last 20% of the places available (80% of the places will be directly attributed by the classic written examen)
METHODS : In this research, it will be proposed to all the 1st year health students registered in Paris University of medicine for the year 2019/2020 (about 1200 students) to complete four self-administered questionnaire : the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (student version),the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) and the Emotional Expressivity Scale (EES). The students will get a personal access to the questionnaires by their digital workspace on the University's website. By the end of the year, they will be separated in 2 groups : students that have succeeded to the selection process and that can enter one of the health course, and students that failed. Then the investigators will compare the scores of the several self-administered questionnaires in the 2 groups.
OBJECTIVE : That study wants to determine if the selection process in first year of health student in the Paris University of Medicine is able to promote students profiles with strong interpersonal abilities so as academics skills. That study will also try to determine if the introduction of MMI has an impact on the empathy scores of the selected students.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| successful test | – | –Students that have successfully passed the test procedure (directly with written exam or after written and oral interviews) and that can enter one of the four medical courses of health studies (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery). |
| failed test | – | –Students that have failed to enter one of the four medical courses of health studies (medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery) after the selection procedure. |
Who may qualify
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- The study population will come from the all students enrolled in first year of health studies in the Paris University of Medicine for the academic year 2019/2020. All of the students can enter the study if the answer the questionnaires, regardless of age or gender.
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- students registered in the first year of heath studies in Paris University Medical School
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- refusal of consent
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Primary outcome
Empathy score
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Empathy score will be measured by Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) Student version and compared between group "success" and group "failure".
3 secondary outcomes
Secondary empathy score (1)
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary empathy score (2)
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Emotional intelligence score
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 29 Nov 2019.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Philippe Jaury, Pr study director
Paris Descartes University of Medicine
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Health Studies First-year Course Selection, run by University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes at 1 site in France.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 29 Nov 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in France. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Empathy score (time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 29 Nov 2019.