Medical Education > Current Research Studies: Empathy
Research Studies: Empathy
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We have developed scales to measure empathy in physicians, medical students, and health professionals as well as patients' perception of empathy in their physicians. These enable us to study the development, stability or change of empathy during the course of professional education and beyond. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy.
Our research findings so far suggest …
- empathy scores are correlated with ratings of clinical competence in medical school but not with objective examination grades
- empathy scores in medical school are predictive of empathic behavior ratings given by residency program directors three years later
- women students and physicians score higher than men on the empathy scale
- empathy scores are significantly related to the specialty areas of practice
- there is a decline in empathy scores during medical school
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