Topic · Empathy and Medical Education
Most cited papers in Empathy and Medical Education
What are the most cited papers in Empathy and Medical Education?
The most cited paper in Empathy and Medical Education is "The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine" (George L. Engel, 1977), with 12,645 citations. Next come "Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach." (9,786) and "Emotional Intelligence" (9,321).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 803 citations is listed.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine George L. Engel · Science | 8 Apr 1977 | 12,645 |
| 2 | Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Mark H. Davis · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1983 | 9,786 |
| 3 | Emotional Intelligence Peter Salovey, John D. Mayer · Imagination Cognition and Personality | Mar 1990 | 9,321 |
| 4 | On death and dying. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · PubMed | Jun 1975 | 4,940 |
| 5 | Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice Glyn Jones Elwyn, Dominick L. Frosch, Richard Thomson et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | 22 May 2012 | 4,461 |
| 6 | Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain Tania Singer, Ben Seymour, John P. O’Doherty et al. · Science | 19 Feb 2004 | 3,969 |
| 7 | Chronic illness as biographical disruption Michael R. Bury · Sociology of Health & Illness | Jul 1982 | 3,923 |
| 8 | How the Mind Works Steven A. Pinker · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Jun 1999 | 3,758 |
| 9 | Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature Nicola Mead, Peter Bower · Social Science & Medicine | Oct 2000 | 3,004 |
| 10 | SANRA—a scale for the quality assessment of narrative review articles Christopher Baethge, Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, Stephan Mertens · Research Integrity and Peer Review | 26 Mar 2019 | 2,934 |
| 11 | The relation of empathy to prosocial and related behaviors. Nancy Eisenberg, Paul Anthony Miller · Psychological Bulletin | 1987 | 2,559 |
| 12 | Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie Trawalter, Jordan R. Axt et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 Apr 2016 | 2,486 |
| 13 | Doctor-patient communication: A review of the literature L.M.L. Ong, Johanna C. J. M. de Haes, A. M. Hoos et al. · Social Science & Medicine | Apr 1995 | 2,436 |
| 14 | Decision-making in the physician–patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model Cathy A. Charles, Amiram Gafni, Timothy Joseph Whelan · Social Science & Medicine | Sep 1999 | 2,370 |
| 15 | Narrative Medicine Rita Charon · JAMA | 17 Oct 2001 | 2,186 |
| 16 | THE NATURE OF SUFFERING AND THE GOALS OF MEDICINE Eric J. Cassel · New England Journal of Medicine | 18 Mar 1982 | 2,139 |
| 17 | How phenomenology can help us learn from the experiences of others Brian E. Neubauer, Catherine Witkop, Lara Varpio · Perspectives on Medical Education | 5 Apr 2019 | 2,101 |
| 18 | Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain Claus Lamm, Jean Decety, Tania Singer · NeuroImage | 13 Oct 2010 | 2,082 |
| 19 | Assessing the Effects of Physician-Patient Interactions on the Outcomes of Chronic Disease Sherrie H. Kaplan, Sheldon Greenfield, John E. Ware · Medical Care | Mar 1989 | 2,069 |
| 20 | Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: A General Overview K. Anders Ericsson · Academic Emergency Medicine | 5 Sep 2008 | 1,818 |
| 21 | Person-Centered Care — Ready for Prime Time Inger Ekman, Karl B Swedberg, Charles Taft et al. · European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing | 23 Jul 2011 | 1,733 |
| 22 | The hidden curriculum, ethics teaching, and the structure of medical education Frederic William Hafferty, Rita A. Franks · Academic Medicine | Nov 1994 | 1,720 |
| 23 | Empathy Decline and Its Reasons: A Systematic Review of Studies With Medical Students and Residents Melanie Neumann, Friedrich Edelhäuser, Diethard Tauschel et al. · Academic Medicine | 11 Jun 2011 | 1,689 |
| 24 | The Devil is in the Third Year: A Longitudinal Study of Erosion of Empathy in Medical School Mohammadreza Hojat, Michael J. Vergare, Kaye Maxwell et al. · Academic Medicine | 22 Aug 2009 | 1,677 |
| 25 | Association of an Educational Program in Mindful Communication With Burnout, Empathy, and Attitudes Among Primary Care Physicians Michael S. Krasner · JAMA | 22 Sep 2009 | 1,666 |
| 26 | ‘Discovering’ chronic illness: Using grounded theory Kathy Calkins Charmaz · Social Science & Medicine | 1990 | 1,658 |
| 27 | Empathy: A Review of the Concept Benjamin M. P. Cuff, Sarah J. L. Brown, Laura Marie Taylor et al. · Emotion Review | Dec 2014 | 1,648 |
| 28 | Evaluating the contribution of interpretative phenomenological analysis Jonathan Ashley Smith · Health Psychology Review | 4 Oct 2010 | 1,628 |
| 29 | Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale Darrick Jolliffe, David P. Farrington · Journal of Adolescence | 29 Sep 2005 | 1,620 |
| 30 | Gender variations in clinical pain experience Anita M. Unruh · Pain | May 1996 | 1,576 |
| 31 | Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman et al. · American Sociological Review | Apr 2003 | 1,555 |
| 32 | The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition Andrew Edmund Slaby · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Nov 1988 | 1,554 |
| 33 | The Biopsychosocial Model 25 Years Later: Principles, Practice, and Scientific Inquiry Francesc Borrell Carrió · The Annals of Family Medicine | Nov 2004 | 1,531 |
| 34 | The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal Claus Lamm, C. Daniel Batson, Jean Decety · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,476 |
| 35 | Influence of context effects on health outcomes: a systematic review Zelda Di Blasi, Elaine F. Harkness, Edzard Ernst et al. · The Lancet | Mar 2001 | 1,412 |
| 36 | These Things Called Empathy: Eight Related but Distinct Phenomena C. Daniel Batson · The MIT Press eBooks | 20 Mar 2009 | 1,367 |
| 37 | Physician Empathy: Definition, Components, Measurement, and Relationship to Gender and Specialty Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella, Thomas J. Nasca et al. · American Journal of Psychiatry | 30 Aug 2002 | 1,336 |
| 38 | Development of a Dental Anxiety Scale Norman L. Corah · Journal of Dental Research | Jul 1969 | 1,310 |
| 39 | Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston et al. | Mar 1995 | 1,298 |
| 40 | The Body Appreciation Scale-2: Item refinement and psychometric evaluation Tracy L. Tylka, Nichole L. Wood-Barcalow · Body Image | 21 Oct 2014 | 1,295 |
| 41 | Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects Damien G. Finniss, Ted Jack Kaptchuk, Franklin G. Miller et al. · The Lancet | Feb 2010 | 1,284 |
| 42 | Distress and Empathy: Two Qualitatively Distinct Vicarious Emotions with Different Motivational Consequences C. Daniel Batson, Jim Fultz, Patricia A. Schoenrade · Journal of Personality | Mar 1987 | 1,270 |
| 43 | How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy Philip L. Jackson, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Jean Decety · NeuroImage | 16 Nov 2004 | 1,264 |
| 44 | The Roots of Empathy: The Shared Manifold Hypothesis and the Neural Basis of Intersubjectivity Vittorio Gallese · Psychopathology | 2003 | 1,252 |
| 45 | Empathy and compassion Tania Singer, Olga Klimecki · Current Biology | Sep 2014 | 1,242 |
| 46 | Physiciansʼ Empathy and Clinical Outcomes for Diabetic Patients Mohammadreza Hojat, Daniel Z. Louis, Fred W. Markham et al. · Academic Medicine | 20 Jan 2011 | 1,236 |
| 47 | The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine Eric J. Cassell · Loss Grief & Care | 1998 | 1,186 |
| 48 | Age norms for impulsiveness, venturesomeness and empathy in adults Sybil B. G. Eysenck, Paul R. Pearson, G. Easting et al. · Personality and Individual Differences | 1985 | 1,177 |
| 49 | The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale Development and Initial Validation of a Factor-Analytic Solution to Multiple Empathy Measures R. Nathan Spreng, Margaret C. McKinnon, Raymond A. Mar et al. · Journal of Personality Assessment | 11 Dec 2008 | 1,171 |
| 50 | Medical Student Distress: Causes, Consequences, and Proposed Solutions Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Matthew R. Thomas, Tait D. Shanafelt · Mayo Clinic Proceedings | Dec 2005 | 1,155 |
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