Empathy in medical students as related to academic performance, clinical competence and gender

By M. Hojat, J. Gonnella, S. Mangione, T. Nasca, J. Veloski, J. B. Erdmann, C. Callahan, Michael Magee. Medical Education, 2002

701 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In General Health Professions

1. Tait D. Shanafelt
2. Lotte N. Dyrbye
3. J. Sloan
4. Matthew R. Thomas
5. P. Novotny
6. Jennifer Mencl
7. Douglas R. May
8. Colin P. West

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Tait D. Shanafelt
2. E. Koopman

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Lotte N. Dyrbye
2. Tait D. Shanafelt
3. J. Sloan
4. Colin P. West

Citations in the corpus

• Measuring empathic tendencies : reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the interpersonal reactivity index (2007, positive): “Consistent with this view, women frequently score significantly higher than men do on self-reported empathy (Eisenberg & Miller, 1987; Hojat et al., 2002).”
• The Effects of Proximity and Empathy on Ethical Decision-Making: An Exploratory Investigation (2009, background): “For example, individuals who experienced high levels of empathy performed significantly better than those who experienced low levels of empathy based on clinical competency (Hojat et al., 2002).”
• How Do Distress and Well-being Relate to Medical Student Empathy? A Multicenter Study (2007, background): “While such “pencil and paper” tests are surrogate measures of empathy, some studies suggest they may be meaningful surrogates.(4,48,101,112) Our study has several important strengths.”