The Devil is in the Third Year: A Longitudinal Study of Erosion of Empathy in Medical School

By M. Hojat, M. Vergare, Kaye Maxwell, G. Brainard, S. Herrine, G. Isenberg, J. Veloski, J. Gonnella. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2009

1,509 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. Ken Masters
2. Tania Singer

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Boris C. Bernhardt
2. Tania Singer
3. B. Atkinson
4. Jamil Zaki

Citations in the corpus

• The neural basis of empathy. (2012, background): “Previous human imaging studies focusing on empathy for others’ pain have consistently shown activations in regions also involved in the direct pain experience, particularly anterior insula and anterior and midcingulate cortex.”
• Artificial intelligence in medical education (2019, background): “…the world in the twentieth century (Masters 2018a); Declining empathy levels among medical students as they progress through their medical degree (Hojat et al. 2009; Neumann et al. 2011; Chen et al. 2012); Pharmaceutical companies ’ price gouging in pursuing financial profits (Hemphill 2010;…”