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Educación Médica Superior

versión On-line ISSN 1561-2902

Resumen

CAMACHO, Gustavo; RODAS ZAMBRANO, María Irene  y  CARRION SUAREZ, Freddy. Empathy capacity of medical teachers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Educ Med Super [online]. 2019, vol.33, n.3  Epub 01-Sep-2019. ISSN 1561-2902.

Introduction:

Empathy is a fundamental factor in the development of interpersonal relationships, useful as it is to understand the problems, achievements, illusions and all the feelings of an individual. In education it also plays a crucial role, since it is a key element for an appropriate relationship between teachers and students.

Objective:

Determine the empathy capacity of teachers from the Medical School at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador from October to December 2017.

Methods:

A descriptive study was conducted which was based on surveys: Baron-Cohen's test both virtually and physically. A total 97 teachers responded to our survey.

Results:

Empathy capacity was found to be high in 91.8% and low in 8.2% of the teachers surveyed. Younger teachers had greater empathy capacity than elder teachers. On the other hand, teachers with a shorter service time at the Medical School displayed better empathy capacity than teachers of more years' experience.

Conclusions:

Most of the teachers at the Medical School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador had high empathy capacity. A strong relationship was found between teachers' age and their empathy capacity.

Palabras clave : teacher; empathy; medicine; Baron-Cohen's test.

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