ArticleJournal of medical education and curricular development
The Development of Empathy and Associated Factors during Medical Education: A Longitudinal Study.
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- Dimensions and temporal stability of medical students' motivation: longitudinal evidence from a panel data survey.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Towards patient-centered healthcare: a scoping review of soft skills training in medical schools.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Impact of sensitisation workshop on empathy levels among postgraduate students: A pre-post interventional study.Bioinformation · 2026Article
- The relationship between empathy and mental health: A mediation model via rumination and interpersonal competence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Increase in self-reported empathy during medical school training: A longitudinal study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Does Medical Curriculum Impact on Empathy? A Longitudinal Study in a Sample of Undergraduate Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2024Article
- The impact of empathy on medical students: an integrative review.BMC medical education · 2024Review
- The Greek Jefferson Scale of Empathy-Medical Student Version (JSE-S): Psychometric Properties and Its Associated Factors.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A scoping review on the relationship between mental wellbeing and medical professionalism.Medical education online · 2023Article
- Work-related coping behaviour and experience patterns in university students: a review of 20 years of research.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposeIn this longitudinal study, we investigated the development of empathy during medical education and assessed potential predictors of empathy at different time points in the course of medical studies.
methodsIn our longitudinal study, starting in 2011, we surveyed medical students at Lübeck Medical School, Germany at the beginning of their course of study and after 2, 4, and 6 years (
resultsA total of 43 students completed all surveys. The cross-sectional samples for the different survey time points comprised between n = 220 and 658 students. We observed a slight, but statistically significant, increase of empathy scores from
conclusionIn our study, empathy scores were shown to be relatively stable during medical education with a tendency to increase. In line with previous research, individuals preferring a people-oriented specialty and women showed higher empathy scores.
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