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Overview

Mohammadreza Hojat is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and health professions.

Their research primarily focuses on areas including:

  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Medical Education and Admissions
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies

Their work spans several main fields of study:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Family Practice

Frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • Academic Medicine
  • International Journal of Medical Education
  • Family Medicine
  • Discover Health Systems
  • Medical Education

Key recent publications include:

  • "Does Empathy Decline in the Clinical Phase of Medical Education? A Nationwide, Multi-Institutional, Cross-Sectional Study of Students at DO-Granting Medical Schools" (2020, Academic Medicine)
  • "Persistent Impostor Phenomenon Is Associated With Distress in Medical Students" (2021, Family Medicine)
  • "Empathy as related to gender, age, race and ethnicity, academic background and career interest: A nationwide study of osteopathic medical students in the United States" (2020, Medical Education)
  • "Clinical empathy: definition, measurement, correlates, group differences, erosion, enhancement, and healthcare outcomes" (2023, Discover Health Systems)
  • "The relationship between grit and selected personality measures in medical students" (2020, International Journal of Medical Education)

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Jennifer DeSantis
  • Mark R. Speicher
  • Lynn Bragan
  • Leonard H. Calabrese
  • Joseph S. Gonnella

Best Publications

  • The Devil is in the Third Year: A Longitudinal Study of Erosion of Empathy in Medical School

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Michael J. Vergare;Kaye Maxwell;George Brainard

  • Physician empathy: definition, components, measurement, and relationship to gender and specialty.

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Joseph S. Gonnella;Thomas J. Nasca;Salvatore Mangione

  • Physicians' Empathy and Clinical Outcomes for Diabetic Patients

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Daniel Z. Louis;Fred W. Markham;Richard Wender

  • Protecting Adolescents From Harm

    Mohammadreza Hojat

  • The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: Development and Preliminary Psychometric Data:

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Salvatore Mangione;Thomas J. Nasca;Mitchell J. M. Cohen

  • An empirical study of decline in empathy in medical school

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Salvatore Mangione;Thomas J Nasca;Susan Rattner

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Lowers Psychological Distress In Medical Students

    Steven Rosenzweig;Diane K. Reibel;Jeffrey M. Greeson;George C. Brainard

  • Empathy in medical students as related to academic performance, clinical competence and gender

    M Hojat;J S Gonnella;S Mangione;T J Nasca

  • The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications: An Empirical Study of Primary Care Physicians and Their Diabetic Patients in Parma, Italy

    Stefano Del Canale;Daniel Z. Louis;Vittorio Maio;Xiaohong Wang

  • A visitor's guide to effect sizes: statistical significance versus practical (clinical) importance of research findings.

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Gang Xu

  • Empathy in Patient Care: Antecedents, Development, Measurement, and Outcomes

    Mohammadreza Hojat

  • The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: further psychometric data and differences by gender and specialty at item level.

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Joseph S Gonnella;Thomas J Nasca;SalvatorE Mangione

  • Measurement of empathy among Japanese medical students: psychometrics and score differences by gender and level of medical education.

    Hitomi U. Kataoka;Norio Koide;Koji Ochi;Mohammadreza Hojat

  • The Empathy Enigma: An Empirical Study of Decline in Empathy Among Undergraduate Nursing Students

    Julia Ward;Julianne Cody;Mary Schaal;Mohammadreza Hojat

  • Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care

    Mohammadreza Hojat

  • The Jefferson Scale of Empathy: a nationwide study of measurement properties, underlying components, latent variable structure, and national norms in medical students

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Jennifer DeSantis;Stephen C. Shannon;Luke H. Mortensen

  • Ten Approaches for Enhancing Empathy in Health and Human Services Cultures

    Mohammadreza Hojat

  • Measuring empathy in healthcare profession students using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: Health provider - student version

    Sylvia K. Fields;Pamela Mahan;Paula Tillman;Jeffrey Harris

  • Patient perceptions of physician empathy, satisfaction with physician, interpersonal trust, and compliance

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Daniel Z. Louis;Kaye Maxwell;Fred Markham

  • Comparisons of American, Israeli, Italian and Mexican physicians and nurses on the total and factor scores of the Jefferson scale of attitudes toward physician–nurse collaborative relationships

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Joseph S Gonnella;Thomas J Nasca;Sylvia K. Fields

  • Empathy scores in medical school and ratings of empathic behavior in residency training 3 years later.

    Mohammadreza Hojat;Salvatore Mangione;Thomas J Nasca;Joseph S Gonnella

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph S. Gonnella
Joseph S. Gonnella Thomas Jefferson University
Leonard H. Calabrese
Leonard H. Calabrese Cleveland Clinic
Ivan Damjanov
Ivan Damjanov University of Kansas
Marvin Zuckerman
Marvin Zuckerman University of Delaware
Brett Williams
Brett Williams Monash University
George C. Brainard
George C. Brainard Thomas Jefferson University
David B. Swanson
David B. Swanson National Board of Medical Examiners
Lyle H. Ungar
Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey M. Greeson
Jeffrey M. Greeson Rowan University
Johannes C. Eichstaedt
Johannes C. Eichstaedt Stanford University

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