Purpose Empathy is a key element of patient–physician communication; it is relevant to and
positively influences patients' health. The authors systematically reviewed the literature to …

Background Empathy is important in the physician–patient relationship. Prior studies have
suggested that physician empathy may decline with clinical training. Objective To measure …

Background Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health,
but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than …

Background Empathy is important in ensuring the quality of the patient-physician
relationship. Several studies have concluded that empathy declines during medical training …

Background Empathy is an outcome-relevant physician characteristic and thus a crucial
component of high-quality communication in health care. However, the factors that promote …

Empathy is important to patient care. It enhances patients' satisfaction, comfort, self-efficacy,
and trust which in turn may facilitate better diagnosis, shared decision making, and therapy …

Background: Empathy is important in the physician–patient relationship. Prior studies
suggest that medical student empathy declines with clinical training. Aims: We examined the …

Despite the increasing awareness of the relevance of empathy in patient care, some findings
suggest that medical schools may be contributing to the deterioration of students' empathy …

Background Empathy is paramount in the health care setting, optimizing communication and
rapport with patients. Recent empirical evidence suggests that empathy is associated with …

Purpose Research is said to show that empathy declines during medical school and
residency training. These studies and their results were examined to determine the extent of …