| S1 1313. Bertram K, Randazzo J, Alabi N, Levenson J, Doucette JT, Barbosa P. Strong correlations between empathy, emotional intelligence, and personality traits among podiatric medical students: a cross-sectional study. Educ Health. 2016 ; 29(3):186-94.
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To evaluate patterns of leve of empathy in podiatric medical students and determine whether emotiona intelligence, personality traits, and demographics had a correlation. |
Quantitative |
Ethnicity (Americans and Asians) and sex |
Regarding demographics, US-born Asian students had lower empathy scores than students from other backgrounds. Women had higher values of empathy than men. |
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Components related to the concept of culture considered in the analysis |
Main results and conclusions |
| S2 1414. Ren GSG , Min JTY , Ping YS , Shing LS , Win MTM , Chuan HS , et al . Complex and novel determinants of empathy change in medical students . Korean J Med Educ . 2016 ; 28 ( 1 ): 67 - 78 .
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To explore the change in empathy and the factors that contributed to that change. |
Quantitative |
Socio-demographic region (Singapore), sex, art, family and community service of the participants.. |
Female participants and affinity with clinica specialties were determining factors in the higher level of empathy compared to counterparts. High workload and inadequate learning environments were the stressors that contributed to low level of empathy. Time spent with family, and artistic and community services correlated with higher empathy scores, while time spent on other individual tasks and leisure correlated with lower scores. The thematic analysis revealed that the most common self-reported determinants were exposure to activity (community service) or socialization, personal and family event, as well as environment (high workload). Empathy in Singapore is built by a multicultural factor that involves the western and eastern model, having a median score when compared to western and eastern countries. |
| S3 1515. Park KH , Roh H , Suh DH , Hojat M . Empathy in Korean medical students: findings from a nationwide survey . Med Teach . 2015 ; 37 ( 10 ): 943 - 8 .
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To evaluate empathy in Korean medical students across the country. |
Quantitative |
Sociodemographic region (Korea) and sex |
Female students and postgraduates scored higher on empathy levels compared to their counterparts. The empathy score of Korean medical students was lower than that of students in Western countries. |
| S4 1616. Berg K , Blatt B , Lopreiato J , Jung J , Schaeffer A , Heil D , et al . Standardized patient assessment of medical student empathy . Acad Med . 2015 ; 90 ( 1 ): 105 - 11 .
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To analyze the perception of simulated patients (SP) about the empathy of medical students, focusing on their sex and races. Also, to assess the self-report of empathy of students, with an emphasis on races and sex. |
Quantitative |
Race and sex |
The assessment of simulated patients indicated significant interaction effects of sex and race on empathy. According to the evaluation of SP women, regardless of races, had significantly higher mean empathy values than men. In contrast, black students obtained the lowest score according to the assessment of SP. Black female students of African-American origin and women of Eastern and Pacific Islander traits scored significantly higher on empathy levels than men. Black and African-American students achieved the highest average results in self-reported empathy. |
| S5 1717. Díaz Narváez VP , Alonso Palacio LM , Caro SE , Silva MG , Castillo JA , Bilbao JL , et al . Orientación empática de estudiantes de medicina entres universidades de Barranquilla, Colombia y en una universidad de República Dominicana . Arch Argent Pediatr . 2014 ; 112 ( 1 ):41-9.
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To compare empathy between medica students from three Colombian medica schools and one from the Dominican Republic. |
Quantitative |
Sociodemographic region (Colombia and Dominican Republic) and sex |
Empathy levels tend to decrease as the courses progress. There was a difference in empathy between males and females; women had a higher empathy levels. The scores obtained were not significant when the universities of Colombia and Mexico were compared. |
| S6 1818. Dehning S, Gasperi S, Tesfaye M, Girma E, Meyer S, Krahl W, et al. Empathy without borders? Cross-cultural heart and mind-reading in first-year medical students. Ethiop J Health Sci. 2013 ; 23(2):113-22.
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o examine cultural differences in the empathy levels of first-year medical students. |
Quantitative and qualitative |
Sex, religion and ethnicity (Ethiopia and Germany) |
Male students in Jimma (Ethiopia) had significantly higher empathy values than male students in Munich (Germany). There was no significant difference between women. Within each university there was a moderate and positive correlation between the instrument that evaluated the eyes of Caucasian students (restricted to this sample) and which evaluated empathy. The main findings of the study were that culture, religion, specialty chosen, and sex had an influence on emotional empathy and cognitive empathy in first year medical students. |
| S7 1919. Kataoka HU , Koide N , Ochi K , Hojat M , Gonnella JS . Measurement of empathy among Japanese medical students: psychometrics and score differences by gender and level of medical education . Acad Med . 2009 ; 84 ( 9 ): 1192 - 7 .
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To investigate psychometric properties of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) - Japanese version and to study the differences in empathy levels between men and women from different semesters of the undergraduate course. |
Quantitative |
Sociodemographic region (Japan) and sex |
Women had higher levels of empathy than men. During the research period, throughout the medical course, empathy levels increased among both sexes. Cultura and educational characteristics of different medical schools in Japan influenced the levels of empathy. The score of Japanese students was lower than that of the United States and Mexico. |
