Beyond empathy decline: Do the barriers to compassion change across medical training?

Conclusions: In extending studies of empathy decline, this report suggests that students experience higher barriers to compassion as clinical training progresses. This is in contrast to existing studies contrasting physicians with medical students, where greater experience was associated with lower perceived barriers to compassion. Self-compassion may offset increases in barriers to care.
Source: Advances in Health Sciences Education - Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: research