Mohammadreza Hojat, PhD
Director of Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education
Research Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Hojat

1025 Walnut Street, Suite 119
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-9459
(215) 923-6939 (fax)

Graduate School
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certification
Licensed Psychologist

University Appointment
Director, Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education
Research Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Medical Education Research, Personality Development and Measurement, Empathy in Patient Care, Lifelong Learning in Medicine, Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care, Loneliness, and Attachment

Publications

1. Reliability and validity of the Jefferson Scale of empathy in undergraduate nursing students
2. Measurement and Correlates of Physicians' Lifelong Learning
3. Ten approaches for enhancing empathy in health and human services cultures
4. The Jefferson Scale of Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration: A study with undergraduate nursing students
5. Personality and specialty interest in medical students
6. Components of postgraduate competence: Analyses of thirty years of longitudinal data
7. Volunteer bias in medical education research: An empirical study of over three decades of longitudinal data
8. Relationships between scores on the Jefferson Scale of physician empathy, patient perceptions of physician empathy, and humanistic approaches to patient care: A validity study
9. Jefferson scale of patient's perceptions of physician empathy: Preliminary psychometric data
10. Assessing physicians' orientation toward lifelong learning
11. Empathy scores in medical school and ratings of empathic behavior in residency training 3 years later
12. Relationships between scores of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI)
13. Empathy in medical students as related to specialty interest, personality, and perceptions of mother and father
14. An empirical study of decline in empathy in medical school
15. Economic diversity in medical education: The relationship between students' family income and academic performance, career choice, and student debt
16. Academic performance of psychiatrists compared to other specialists before, during, and after medical school
17. Students personality and ratings of clinical competence medical school clerkships: A longitudinal study
18. An empirical study of the predictive validity of number grades in medical school using 3 decades of longitudinal data: Implications for a grading system
19. Modafinil Improves Recovery after General Anesthesia
20. Comparisons of nurses and physicians on an operational measure of empathy

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