How well do medical students rate and communicate clinical empathy?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Bee Teng ^a   Moriarty, Helen ^a   Huthwaite, Mark ^a   Gray, Lesley ^a   Pullon, Sue ^a   Gallagher, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; TIME;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874175453     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.715783     Document Type: Article

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