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| Title |
The physician’s role and empathy – a qualitative study of third year medical students
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-14-165 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Hanne-Lise Eikeland, Knut Ørnes, Arnstein Finset, Reidar Pedersen |
| Abstract |
Empathy is important in ensuring the quality of the patient-physician relationship. Several studies have concluded that empathy declines during medical training, especially during the third year. However, there is little empirical research on what may influence a medical student's empathy. In addition, studies of empathy in medicine have generally been dominated by quantitative approaches, primarily self-assessment questionnaires. This is a paradox given the complexity and importance of empathy. In this paper we explore medical students' opinions of what may foster or inhibit empathy during medical school, with a particular emphasis on how empathy is influenced by the initiation into the physician's role. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 5 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 12% |
| Norway | 3 | 12% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Australia | 2 | 8% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 58% |
| Scientists | 6 | 23% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 19% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 182 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 180 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 17 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 47 | 26% |
| Unknown | 34 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 79 | 43% |
| Psychology | 16 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Unknown | 48 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2016.
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#1,255,184
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#111
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#12,229
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