Associations between medical student empathy and personality : a multi-institutional study

BACKGROUND: More empathetic physicians are more likely to achieve higher patient satisfaction, adherence to treatments, and health outcomes. In the context of medical education, it is thus important to understand how personality might condition the empathetic development of medical students. Single...

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Main Author: Costa, Manuel João (author)
Other Authors: Costa, Patrício Soares (author), Alves, Raquel (author), Neto, Isabel (author), Marvão, Pedro (author), Portela, Miguel (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Science & Technology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/32977
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/32977

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