Residents’ clinical empathy: gender and specialty comparisons - a Romanian study
Keywords:
Empathy, Medical resident, Measurement, PsychiatryAbstract
Objective. To measure and examine medical residents’ (junior doctors) empathy and to compare psychiatry residents’ empathy with that of other specialties. Participants and Methods. A translated version of Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy for PractisinDownloads
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