Assessing Empathic Attitudes in Medical Students: The Re-Validation of the Jefferson Scale of Empathystudent Version Report

Zdravstveno Varstvo

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 282-292

  Petek Šter, Marija ^a   Selič, Polona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

attitude; empathy; medical students; self assessment; values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943754887     PISSN: 03510026     EISSN: 18542476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/sjph-2015-0037     Document Type: Article

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