Clinical Trial: Effect of a Community Service-Learning Intervention on Medical Empathy and Clinical Self-Efficacy in Medical Students

U.S., April 15 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07528521) titled 'Effect of a Community Service-Learning Intervention on Medical Empathy and Clinical Self-Efficacy in Medical Students' on April 03.

Brief Summary: Medical empathy and clinical self-efficacy are key professional competencies that are difficult to develop through traditional classroom-based training alone. At the Faculty of Medicine of FES Iztacala (UNAM), the curriculum includes a community practice component in the Practica Clinica I module that is rarely implemented in practice, creating a gap between the formal and real curriculum.

This quasi-experimental pre-post study evaluates the effect of a structured Service-Learning (SL) ...