Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-06T12:54:52 RDF description of Intelligent play: how improv can improve clinician's emotional intelligence - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn36805 Clinical Teacher 22797 Physicians 4 39314 2024-07-13T10:16:36.197-05:00 Physician-Patient Relations Communication <p>BACKGROUND: Emotional intelligence (EI) of physicians significantly impacts their personal well-being and professional success with broad implications in health care. A focused training on EI is often lacking in medical curricula. We sought to understand the impact of improvisation training on clinicians' EI. APPROACH: Four online medical improv workshops were offered to a diverse group of physicians with varied levels of practice experience including medicine-paediatric residents, paediatric educators, practising paediatricians and internal/family medicine clinicians. The improv training was thoughtfully curated and remained consistent for all four cohorts, lasting 2 h. Self-reported EI scales (pre and post) were captured using an online survey tool. The overall EI score and the scores of three EI components were compared before and after training. EVALUATION: Out of 64 participants, 41 participants (64%) completed both the pre- and post-surveys and were included in the final analysis. Participant's pre-training score (mean:123.9, range: 121.1-126.7) was compared to their post-training score (mean:128.9, range: 126.3-131.3). The t tests comparing EI scores showed that compared to pre-intervention, participants on average scored 4.9 points higher (95% CI: 3.1-6.7; p <�0.01) on the overall scale, 2.2 points higher (95% CI: 1.2-3.2; p <�0.01) on the appraisal score, 1.4 points higher (95% CI: 0.8-2.0; p <�0.01) on the regulation score and 1.2 points higher (95% CI: 0.4-2.1; p =�0.01) on the utilisation score. IMPLICATIONS: Improv training is an innovative method to fill the crucial gap in EI curricula. There was a statistically significant improvement in average score for clinicians' EI after a pilot improv training programme.<p> document-rn36805 public 10.1111/tct.13730 21 Collaboration Education, Medical Intelligent play: how improv can improve clinician's emotional intelligence