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Empathy as Related to Personal Qualities, Career Choice, Acquisition of Knowledge, and Clinical Competence

  • Hojat M
Springer International Publishing, (2016), 151-167
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27625-0_9
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The link between empathy, personality, selected psychosocial variables, career choice, specialty interest, clinical competence, and patient outcomes is described. Empirical research suggests that empathy correlates positively with prosocial and altruistic behaviors …

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Hojat, M. (2016). Empathy as Related to Personal Qualities, Career Choice, Acquisition of Knowledge, and Clinical Competence. In Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care (pp. 151–167). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27625-0_9

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