Title: Reconsidering the “decline” of medical student empathy as reported in studies using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Student version (JSPE-S)
Abstract: Introduction: The suggestion that empathy “declines” or “erodes” as students progress through medical school has largely rested on observations reported from Jefferson Medical College in the United States using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) developed by Hojat and colleagues. Now that the student version of JSPE has been administered to medical students in more than a dozen countries, it is timely to consider whether or not the Jefferson “case study” and the conclusions drawn from it are generalisable.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-02-10
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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