Decline of Empathy During Medical Education

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Ami Schattner. Acad Med. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 1;96(3):317.

doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003749.

¹ Professor of medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel; amischatt@gmail.com .

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In Reply to Schattner and to Ozair et al.
Hojat M, Shannon S, DeSantis J, Speicher M, Bragan L, Calabrese L. Hojat M, et al. Acad Med. 2021 Mar 1;96(3):318. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003752. Acad Med. 2021. PMID: 33661837 No abstract available.

The Jefferson Scale of Empathy: a nationwide study of measurement properties, underlying components, latent variable structure, and national norms in medical students.
Hojat M, DeSantis J, Shannon SC, Mortensen LH, Speicher MR, Bragan L, LaNoue M, Calabrese LH. Hojat M, et al. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2018 Dec;23(5):899-920. doi: 10.1007/s10459-018-9839-9. Epub 2018 Jul 2. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2018. PMID: 29968006 Free PMC article.

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