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Linguistic Analysis Of Empathy In Medical School Admission Essays., Mary Yaden, David Yaden, Anneke Buffone, Johannes Eichstaedt, Patrick Crutchley, Laura Smith, Jonathan Cass, Clara Callahan, Susan Rosenthal, Lyle Ungar, Andrew Schwartz, Mohammadreza Hojat
Linguistic Analysis Of Empathy In Medical School Admission Essays., Mary Yaden, David Yaden, Anneke Buffone, Johannes Eichstaedt, Patrick Crutchley, Laura Smith, Jonathan Cass, Clara Callahan, Susan Rosenthal, Lyle Ungar, Andrew Schwartz, Mohammadreza Hojat
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Faculty Papers
Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether words used in medical school admissions essays can predict physician empathy.
Methods: A computational form of linguistic analysis was used for the content analysis of medical school admissions essays. Words in medical school admissions essays were computationally grouped into 20 'topics' which were then correlated with scores on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. The study sample included 1,805 matriculants (between 2008-2015) at a single medical college in the North East of the United States who wrote an admissions essay and completed the Jefferson Scale of Empathy at matriculation.
Results: After correcting for multiple …