Medical students' empathy and attitudes towards professionalism: Relationship with personality, specialty preference and medical programme.

<h4>Background</h4>Existing research has suggested that self-reported empathy in medical students is moderated by personality traits and diverse demographic and educational factors including age, gender, nationality, career aspirations, as well as year of curriculum. It is unclear how em...

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Main Authors: Colm M P O'Tuathaigh, Alia Nadhirah Idris, Eileen Duggan, Patricio Costa, Manuel João Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215675