Biases towards different patients groups. How do they differ during medical education?

Objective: This cross-sectional study was a first to attempt to assess how biases towards age, gender and sexual orientation differ during the years of undergraduate medical education.

Methods: 600 medical students from the first, third and sixth year of study participated in the study. Three questionnaires were used: The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory scale (ASI), the Fraboni Scale of Ageism (FSA) and the Homophobia scale (HSc).

Does empathy change during undergraduate medical education? - A meta-analysis.

The aim of this meta-analysis was to synthesize the existing evidence examining how empathy changes during undergraduate medical education and assess whether different types of measures produce different results. Three electronic bibliographic databases were last searched on 28 November 2018. Quantitative studies including a measure of empathy in medical undergraduate students and a comparison of the results among the different years of study were included.