Assessing empathy development in medical education: a systematic review

SH Sulzer, NW Feinstein, CL Wendland - Medical education, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Context Empathy in doctor–patient relationships is a familiar topic for medical scholars and a
crucial goal for medical educators. Nonetheless, there are persistent disagreements in the …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting the trajectory of medical students' empathy, and impact of gender, specialty preferences and nationality: a systematic review

FA Andersen, ASB Johansen, J Søndergaard… - BMC medical …, 2020 - Springer
Background Empathy allows a physician to understand the patient's situation and feelings
and respond appropriately. Consequently, empathy gives rise to better diagnostics and …

Empathy in health professions education and patient care

M Hojat - 2016 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Jefferson Scale of Empathy: a nationwide study of measurement properties, underlying components, latent variable structure, and national norms in …

M Hojat, J DeSantis, SC Shannon… - Advances in Health …, 2018 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between empathy and big five personality traits among Chinese undergraduate medical students

Y Song, M Shi - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Empathy promotes positive physician-patient communication and is associated
with improved patient satisfaction, treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. It has been …

Personality assessments and outcomes in medical education and the practice of medicine: AMEE Guide No. 79

M Hojat, JB Erdmann, JS Gonnella - Medical teacher, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In a paradigm of physician performance we propose that both “cognitive” and “noncognitive”
components contribute to the performance of physicians-in-training and in-practice. Our …

[HTML][HTML] Empathy differences by gender and specialty preference in medical students: a study in Brazil

MA Santos, S Grosseman, TC Morelli… - … journal of medical …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives We have conducted this study to assess medical students' empathy and to
examine empathy differences by students' socio-demographic characteristics, including …

Undergraduate medical students' empathy: current perspectives

T Quince, P Thiemann, J Benson… - Advances in medical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Clarifying changes in student empathy throughout medical school: a scoping review

A Ferreira-Valente, JS Monteiro, RM Barbosa… - Advances in Health …, 2017 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Empathy in Chinese medical students: psychometric characteristics and differences by gender and year of medical education

D Wen, X Ma, H Li, Z Liu, B Xian, Y Liu - BMC medical education, 2013 - Springer
Background In recent years in China, the tense physician-patient relationship has been an
outstanding problem. Empathy is one of the fundamental factors enhancing the therapeutic …