A cross-sectional study of student empathy across four medical schools in Denmark—associations between empathy level and age, sex, specialty preferences and motivation

Abstract Background Professional empathy has been associated with a range of positive patient- and clinician outcomes and is therefore considered important to develop for future physicians. Measuring changes in empathy scores among medical students by using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (Student ve...

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Main Authors: Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Jens Søndergaard, Sonja Wehberg, Niels Christian Hvidt, Christina Maar Andersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03532-2