title: Androgyny predicts empathy for trainees in medicine.
abstract: Data from 65 medical students and residents support the hypothesis that scores on a measure of androgyny are predictive of those on an index of empathy but relatively modest predictive accuracy was observed for sympathetic responses. Further exploration is suggested.
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Yarnold
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Soltysik
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Nightingale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*