Empathy as related to motivations for medicine in a sample of first-year medical students

Psychological Reports

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 73-88

  Gonçalves Pereira, Manuel ^a   Trancas, Bruno ^b   Loureiro, José ^b   Papoila, Ana ^a   Caldas De Almeida, José Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Hospital Prof Doutor Fernando Fonseca   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIANS; PORTUGAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875550838     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/17.13.PR0.112.1.73-88     Document Type: Article

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