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Medical students' Balanced Emotional Empathy Scale scores were compared by year, sex, and expressed specialty choice. Scores were lower for students choosing non-core specialties, and for M4 men students compared with M3 men students.
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Empatia , Estudantes de Medicina/psicologia , Análise de Variância , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Psicológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Distribuição por Sexo , Estudantes de Medicina/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
BACKGROUND: The technologies for providing better pain management for cancer patients are widely available, but barriers still exist that prevent their optimal use. One of the most important barriers is a knowledge deficit among primary care physicians in adequate pain assessment, in opioid pharmacology, and in the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the management of pain. METHOD: The authors prepared a CD-ROM multimedia cancer pain management module to overcome the physician knowledge barrier. RESULTS: Tests of the module with primary care physician and primary care resident volunteers indicate that the cancer pain management multimedia module meets its educational objectives.
