Aim: The aim of our study; to gather information about medical students' empathy tendency level and communication skills attitudes and to make suggestions for shaping education with the results.
Method: In this study, before the communication skills course of Düzce University Faculty of Medicine, to determine the students' empathy tendency and communication skills attitudes,students were asked to fill in the "Empathic Tendency Scale" (EEÖ), which consists of 20 questions developed by Dökmen (1988) and "Developing Communication Skills Assessment Scale" consisting of 25 questions developed by Korkut (İBDO).
Results: Of the 94 students, 51.1% (n = 46) were male and 48.9% (n = 46) were female. The rate of students who had previously learned about empathic tendency (29.8%) was significantly lower than the rate of non-knowledgeable students (70.2%) (p
Key words: Empathy tendency, communication skills, medical education
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