Context Selection methods used by medical schools should reliably identify whether
candidates are likely to be successful in medical training and ultimately become competent …

Background Mental wellbeing issues among medical students are common, and their
relationship to medical professionalism is debated. Few studies have attempted to link such …

The concept of empathy has received a lot of attention in the past few decades in public
media, academia, national and international politics, arts, ethics, health professions …

Abstract The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is a broadly used instrument developed to
measure empathy in the context of health professions education and patient care. Evidence …

Objectives This study was designed to explore the underlying construct of measures of
empathy, optimism, and burnout in medical students. Methods Three instruments for …

Objective: This study was designed to provide typical descriptive statistics, score
distributions and percentile ranks of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Medical Student version …

Background More empathetic physicians are more likely to achieve higher patient
satisfaction, adherence to treatments, and health outcomes. In the context of medical …

Background: Empathy is an important component of overall clinical competence; thus,
enhancing empathy in medical education is essential for quality patient care. Aim: This …

Objectives: To reaffirm the underlying components of the JSE by using exploratory factor
analysis (EFA), and to confirm its latent variable structure by using confirmatory factor …

Background Personality influences an individual's adaptation to a specific job or
organization. Little is known about personality trait differences between medical career and …