Purpose Some research shows that empathy declines during medical school. The authors
conducted an updated, systematic review of the literature on empathy-enhancing …

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 …

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 …

Background Empathy is pivotal to effective clinical care. Yet, the art of nurturing and
assessing empathy in medical schools is rarely consistent and poorly studied. To inform …

Background Nursing students' empathy and positive attitudes toward elderly people could
help provide improved elderly care in their future practice. This study aimed to investigate …

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

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 …

Background: Empathy is an important component of physician competence that needs to be
enhanced. Aim: To test the hypotheses that medical students' empathy can be enhanced …

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

This article presents a brief history of the Jefferson Empathy Project, provides a definition of
clinical empathy, and describes the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE), the most frequently …