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June 19, 2013Medical TeacherOpen Access

Maintaining empathy in medical school: It is possible

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IHIman HegaziIWIan Wilson

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Cross-sectional study demonstrates stable empathy across years in medical students, suggesting personal and professional development courses prevent typical declines.

Key Points

  • To compare empathy levels across undergraduate medical class years and assess differences related to gender, stage of education, background, and specific personal and professional development coursework.
  • Conducted a cross-sectional survey of undergraduate medical students in years one through five (N=404).
  • Administered the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, Student version (JSPE-S) alongside questions assessing demographic traits and completion of personal and professional development (PPD) programmes.
  • Overall JSPE-S scores ranged from 34 to 135 with a mean of 109.07 ± 14.937, with no significant difference observed across different years of medical training.
  • Female medical students achieved significantly higher empathy scores than male students across all five years of study (mean 111 vs. 106, p < 0.001).
  • Year-five students who completed personal and professional development modules demonstrated the highest mean empathy scores.

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Hegazi et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1c2caaea84844e355f8c3ehttps://doi.org/10.3109/0142159x.2013.802296
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