Neuroscience
Hojat, Mohammadreza; Vergare, Michael J.; Maxwell, Kaye; Brainard, George; Herrine, Steven K.; Isenberg, Gerald A.; Veloski, Jon; Gonnella, Joseph S. The Devil is in the Third Year: A Longitudinal Study of Erosion of Empathy in Medical School Academic Medicine, September 2009 - Volume 84 - Issue 9 - pp 1182-1191.
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181b17e55
The full text of this research paper is available at: Click here
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Medical Students and Empathy
Hojat, Mohammadreza; Vergare, Michael J.; Maxwell, Kaye; Brainard, George; Herrine, Steven K.; Isenberg, Gerald A.; Veloski, Jon; Gonnella, Joseph S. The Devil is in the Third Year: A Longitudinal Study of Erosion of Empathy in Medical School Academic Medicine, September 2009 - Volume 84 - Issue 9 - pp 1182-1191.
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181b17e55
The full text of this research paper is available at: Click here
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