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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction: Physician empathy is a highly desired characteristic in clinical practice with benefits for both patients and doctors. Increasingly, medical educators have acknowledged the importance of empathy and sought effective ways of inculcating and strengthening this quality in medical students. However, empathy remains difficult to measure because of differing definitions and theoretical dimensions. Our goal was to develop a de novo visual Art scale, devised to evaluate empathetic response in medical students as well as a de novo Biosocial scale to measure medical student socioeconomic and experiential stress during childhood and adolescence; and to compare these exploratory measures to the reliable and well-validated Jefferson Scale of Empathy JSE). Methods: We constructed a survey incorporating a visual Art empathy measure, a Biosocial scale, and the JSE, which we sent to approximately 200 allopathic preclinical medical students at our home institution. We received 71 complete responses. Results: Cronbach's alpha testing found that the items in both new scales had adequate reliability. Multivariate regression analysis found a significant, positive association between both the visual art and biosocial scores and the JSE. Discussion: These results support the idea that response to visual stimuli, as well as life stressors, may be factors in medical students' capacity to formulate an empathetic response to patients.

Medical Student Interpretation of Visual Art: Who's Got Empathy? [Version 2]