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, Patricio (author)
Other Authors: Alves, Raquel (author), Neto, Isabel (author), Marvão, Pedro (author), Portela, Miguel (author), Costa, Manuel Joao (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11646
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/11646