Working nurses' empathy with patients in public hospitals.

Objective: to determine the levels of empathy in professional nurses of a high-complexity hospital, to relate age to empathy (and each one of its dimensions), and to establish if there are differences between these levels according to the type of working schedules.

Method: comparative, correlational and cross-sectional design. The sample used (n=271) constituted 40.

Erosion of empathy during medical training by gender. A cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Empathy erosion may be defined as a sudden decline in the levels of empathy that occurs as of the third year of medical school and continues until the fifth year. According to some authors, this process is normal during medical training and may be considered a model of empathic behavior. The objective of this study was to verify whether empathy erosion is a general phenomenon in the schools of medicine included in the study and its relation to gender.