Background: Empathy has been described as a multidimensional concept that involves a cognitive and an emotional component. The cognitive domain involves the ability to understand other people's experiences and feelings, and the affective domain involves emotionally bonding with their experiences and feelings. Methodology: An observational and cross-sectional study was carried out in medical students from a private university, in the city of Cali, Colombia.
Results: Empathy levels remained similar between students from both the first and last years. Also, the values of empathy tend to decrease if the student practices less than 150 minutes of exercise a week and increase if the student has some type of scholarship.
Conclusion: Empathy should be considered as a fundamental aspect in the training of medical students since it has a positive impact on the doctor-patient relationship, on pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic adherence, and on treatment results, being an essential ingredient for the Obtaining satisfactory results in the health-disease process.
Published Date: 2022-03-31; Received Date: 2022-03-03
