Empathy portfolios in developing professional identity formation

What is it about?

The study found that empathy portfolios had little influence on professional identity formation (PIF) among medical students, with nonsignificant effect sizes for empathy (0.32) and PIF (0.36), indicating their ineffectiveness as a short-term intervention for nurturing PIF.

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Why is it important?

We introduced writing portfolios as a short-term intervention for medical students to see an effect on their empathy. This intervention had little influence on nurturing empathy, indicating that brief intervention may not be effective in developing professional skills like empathy. This research creates room for further research on long-term interventions in nurturing empathy in medical students.