Searching for the erosion of empathy in medical undergraduate students: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the trajectory of empathy throughout the degree programme of medicine in a Spanish school of medicine.

Design

Longitudinal, prospective 5-year study, between October 2014 and June 2019.

Setting

Students from a Spanish university of medicine.

Participants

Two voluntary cohorts of undergraduate medical students from two different school years were invited to participate (n=135 (cohort 1, C1) and 106 (cohort 2, C2) per school year). Finally, a total number of 174 students (102 (C1, 71.6% women) and 72 (C2, 70.8% women) students, respectively) were monitored for 5 years. Each cohort was divided in two subcohorts of paired and unpaired students that were analysed to check possible social desirability bias.

Primary outcome measure

The Jeff

SUBMITTER: Blanco JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780525 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature