Resumen de Perspectives of Colombian medicine students about their formation on breaking bad news: A cross-sectional study

Luis Alfonso Díaz Martínez, Mitzy Helein Cuesta Armesto, María José Díaz Rojas

• español

  Introducción Las escuelas de Medicina son las responsables del entrenamiento en dar malas noticias, el cual ha de estar enfocado en los estudiantes, por lo que el propósito de este estudio es identificar sus percepciones acerca de la mejor forma para entrenarles.

  Métodos Estudio trasversal anónimo entre 438 estudiantes >18 años de un programa colombiano de Medicina.

  Resultados Los estudiantes no se sienten preparados para dar malas noticias. Aun sin entrenamiento formal, ellos creen que su capacidad para dar malas noticias mejora a medida que avanza su entrenamiento médico. Hay una mayor proporción de estudiantes varones que mujeres que se consideran empáticos, pero también ellos reconocen con más frecuencia que ellas que su capacidad empática disminuye con el avance de sus estudios.

  Discusión La información recolectada puede permitir a las escuelas de Medicina modificar su currículo para ofrecer entrenamiento más adecuado a sus estudiantes en dar malas noticias.

• English

  Introduction Medical schools are responsible for breaking bad news training, which should be focused on the students; therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify undergraduate medical students’ perceptions regarding the best way to train them.

  Methods Cross-sectional anonymous survey applied between 438 >18-years-old Colombian medicine students.

  Results The students feel unprepared to breaking bad news; even without formal training, they believe they are better at breaking bad news as they advance in their training due to their observation of other clinicians and their personal experiences. A higher proportion of male students consider themselves empathetic than female students, but advanced male students report more frequently that their empathic capacity has decreased throughout their career more frequently than female students of the same academic level.

  Discussion This information will allow the medical school to modify the curriculum to offer proper training to its students.

  Conclusion Very few students have received formal training regarding this topic, and most of them are interested in training.