In Reply to Schattner and to Ozair et al

Affiliations

¹ Research professor of psychiatry and human behavior and director, the Jefferson Longitudinal Study, Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mohammadreza.Hojat@jefferson.edu .
² Emeritus president, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
³ Senior research analyst, Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Senior vice president for medical education and research, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁵ Project manager, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁶ Professor of medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, R.J. Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology, Theodore F. Chassen DO chair of osteopathic research and education, and vice chair, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Mohammadreza Hojat et al. Acad Med. 2021.

. 2021 Mar 1;96(3):318.

doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003752.

¹ Research professor of psychiatry and human behavior and director, the Jefferson Longitudinal Study, Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mohammadreza.Hojat@jefferson.edu .
² Emeritus president, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
³ Senior research analyst, Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Senior vice president for medical education and research, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁵ Project manager, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
⁶ Professor of medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, R.J. Fasenmyer chair of clinical immunology, Theodore F. Chassen DO chair of osteopathic research and education, and vice chair, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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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.
Decline of Empathy During Medical Education.
Schattner A. Schattner A. Acad Med. 2021 Mar 1;96(3):317. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003749. Acad Med. 2021. PMID: 33661835 No abstract available.
Decline of Empathy During Medical Education.
Ozair A, Singh KK, Kumar P. Ozair A, et al. Acad Med. 2021 Mar 1;96(3):317. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003748. Acad Med. 2021. PMID: 33661836 No abstract available.

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