On February 2024, Dr. Hussein Hallak in collaboration with Medical students from Al-Quds University Faculty of Medicine published a new study in Migration Letters titled Emotional Intelligence (EI) Among Medical Students and Residents in Palestine: A Cross-Sectional Study. The article aimed to assess EI level among Palestinian medical students in two stages of their studies, clinical and basic sciences, and to assess factors that may affect it. The results of this study demonstrated that participating medical students, both male and female, had relatively high levels of emotional intelligence. However, students in the clinical stage had lower EI than those in the basic sciences stage, which indicates a conflict between objectivity and humanity while training clinically. Therefore, emotional support during clinical years would aid in improving EI. Moreover, EI increases by engaging in hobbies or extracurricular activities, this indicates that EI can be modulated through encouragement of such activities. While it decreases with regretting getting into medical school, which may reflect a lack of interest in studying this field.
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