title: Changes of empathy in medical college and medical school students: 1-year follow up study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study aims to determine the correlation between medical education systems, medical college (MC) and medical school (MS), and empathy by investigating the changes in empathy among students with each additional year of medical education.
  
  
  METHODS
  The subjects were MC and MS students who had participated in the same study the previous year. All participants completed the same self-report instruments: a questionnaire on sociodemographic characteristics, and the Korean edition of the Student Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-S-K), Among 334 students, the final analysis was conducted on the data provided by 113 MC and 120 MS students, excluding 101 with incomplete data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The age and sex did not affect the changes in empathy. Though the JSE-S-K score of MS was significantly higher than that of MC in initial investigation, this study found no difference of empathy between MC and MS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Empathy increased significantly after one year of medical education. The difference between two education systems, MC and MS, did not affect the changes in empathy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-Dong, Dong Dae Moon-Gu, 130-702, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Minha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Won Hye
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jae Hyun
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Tai Young
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Yoon
authors.forename: Duk Soo
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Sang Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Geon Ho
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Bahn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D056910:Republic of Korea; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires