Context Research on associations between medical student empathy and demographics,
academic background and career interest is limited, lacks representative samples and …

Physicians experience many emotionally challenging situations in their professional lives,
influencing their emotional state through emotion contagion or social appraisal processes …

In medical education, we assess knowledge, skills, and a third category usually called
values or attitudes. While knowledge and skills can be assessed, this third category consists …

Background Empathy has been reported to produce a positive effect on improving patient
health outcomes, becoming a fundamental skill in any health personnel-patient relationship …

Objectives Empathy in healthcare benefits patients and healthcare providers. However,
empathy decline is a recent trend within healthcare education. There is a paucity of literature …

Background Given the influence that personality can have on empathy, this study explores
the relationship between empathy and personality, using three different measures of …

This study investigated the impact of empathy training on medical students using a project-
based learning approach on the development of their empathic abilities. Study participants …

Recent reviews of the empathy literature have revealed that nearly half of the published
studies on empathy employed an empathy measure that did not align precisely with the …

Purpose Clinical empathy is a necessary trait to provide effective patient care, despite
differences in how it is defined and constructed. The aim of this study was to examine …

Aims A novel professional training was developed to reduce stigma toward harm reduction
and pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders. Methods The training was delivered over …