Empathy levels of occupational therapy students.
Certain levels of empathy are vital to health professionals for understanding their patients. The Level I clinical practicum experienced by Ohio State University juniors did not have the anticipated impact upon their empathy scores, but a group process course, where it was possible to teach and evaluate empathy levels, might have positively affected the empathy levels of students.
D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000193:education*; D012681:Sensitivity Training Groups