Roshanak Benabbas

[ 1 ] - Empathy in Iranian medical students: A comparison by age, gender, academic performance and specialty preferences

Empathy is an important element of physician-patient communication. Empathy is linked to a number of attributes such as patient treatment compliance and satisfaction, better history taking and physical examination and therefore achieving better clinical outcomes. Previous research indicates that self-reported empathy among medical students declines during the course of their medical education a...