A Cross-sectional Measurement of Medical Student Empathy

Empathy is important in the physician-patient relationship. Prior studies have suggested that physician empathy may decline with clinical training.To measure and examine student empathy across medical school years.A cross-sectional study of students at Boston University School of Medicine in 2006. Incoming students plus each class near the end of the academic year were surveyed.The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy-Student Version (JSPE-S), a...