Empathy in undergraduate medical students: a multi-center cross-sectional study in China

• Published in: BMC psychiatry Vol. 24; no. 1; p. 414
• Main Authors: Huang, Runzhi, Zhou, Zhitong, Liu, Yifan, Lin, Min, Gong, Meiqiong, Xian, Shuyuan, Yin, Huabin, Meng, Tong, Wang, Xiaonan, Wang, Yue, Chen, Wenfang, Zhang, Chongyou, Du, Erbin, Liu, Xin, Lin, Qing, Wu, Hongbin, Huang, Zongqiang, Zhang, Jie, Zhang, Guoyang, Ji, Shizhao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 04.06.2024; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; China; Cognitive style; Colleges & universities; Cross-Sectional Studies; Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Emotions; Empathy; Female; Hospitals; Humans; Influencing factors; Learning; Male; Males; Medical education; Medical students; Nomogram; Nomograms; Patients; Physician and patient; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Questionnaires; Regression analysis; Self image; Statistical analysis; Students, Medical - psychology; Students, Medical - statistics & numerical data; Variance analysis; Young Adult; China; Medical students; Empathy; Influencing factors; Nomogram

Fostering empathy has been continuously emphasized in the global medical education. Empathy is crucial to enhance patient-physician relationships, and is associated with medical students' academic and clinical performance. However, empathy level of medical students in China and related influenc...