Empathy in Chinese medical students: Psychometric characteristics and differences by gender and year of medical education

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wen, Deliang ^a   Ma, Xiaodan ^a   Li, Honghe ^a   Liu, Zhifei ^a   Xian, Bensong ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Empathy; Medical students; Professionalism; Validity and reliability

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPATHY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EMPATHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884407513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-130     Document Type: Article

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