Residents’ clinical empathy: gender and specialty comparisons - a Romanian study

Authors

  • Bogdan Ioan Voinescu Department of Psychiatry, Clinical County Hospital of Emergency, Cluj-Napoca
  • Aurora Szentagotai Faculty of Psychology, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
  • Adrew Coogan Department of Psychology, NUI Maynooth, Kilkenny

Keywords:

Empathy, Medical resident, Measurement, Psychiatry

Abstract

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 Practisin

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Published

2008-11-27

How to Cite

Voinescu, B. I., Szentagotai, A., & Coogan, A. (2008). Residents’ clinical empathy: gender and specialty comparisons - a Romanian study. Acta Medica Academica, 38(1), 11–15. Retrieved from https://ama.ba/index.php/ama/article/view/50

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Clinical Science