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

<h4>Background</h4>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 medica...

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Main Authors: Patrício Costa, Raquel Alves, Isabel Neto, Pedro Marvão, Miguel Portela, Manuel João Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24637613/?tool=EBI