It has been suggested that those who enter the medical profession begin indoctrination with an empathy deficit (Hojat et al. 2004). Investigators have reported negative changes in resident mood and empathy, cynicism, and burnout (Thomas 2004), but have only begun to examine these changes in medical students. Importantly, medical school admissions serve as a critical gate-keeping step in the doctor-building process. Therefore, selecting optimal medical students endowed with utmost empathy is crucial to the future of physician practice. We sought to investigate the association between empathy and time between undergraduate college education and medical school matriculation as an area yet unexamined. Intentionally or not, pre-medical education dogma encourages immediate matriculation to medical school. Medical school is unique in that the majority of matriculants come directly from college with minimal time between the two institutions.
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机译：已经提出，那些进入医学界的人开始灌输时会产生共情缺陷（Hojat et al。2004）。研究者已经报告了居民情绪和同情心，犬儒主义和倦怠方面的消极变化（Thomas 2004），但是才刚刚开始研究医学生的这些变化。重要的是，医学院的录取是医生培养过程中至关重要的关门步骤。因此，选择具有最大同理心的最佳医学生对于医师实践的未来至关重要。我们试图调查同理心与时间之间的关联，在大学本科教育和医学院入学这一个尚未审查的领域。医学教育教条有意或无意鼓励立即入读医学院。医学院的独特之处在于，大多数预科生直接来自大学，而两所机构之间的时间极短。
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