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. Psychostimulant drug abuse and personality factors in medical students
2. Editorial: Empathy and Health Care Quality
3. Psychometrics of the scale of attitudes toward physician-pharmacist collaboration: A study with medical students
4. The relationship between physician empathy and disease complications: An empirical study of primary care physicians and their diabetic patients in Parma, Italy
5. Measurement and correlates of empathy among female Japanese physicians
6. The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: A preliminary psychometric study and group comparisons in Korean physicians
7. Impact of a workshop about aging on the empathy scores of pharmacy and medical students
8. Impact of a workshop about aging on the empathy scores of pharmacy and medical students.
9. The Empathy Enigma: An Empirical Study of Decline in Empathy Among Undergraduate Nursing Students
10. Medical education, social accountability and patient outcomes
11. Validation of an instrument to measure pharmacy and medical students' attitudes toward physician-pharmacist collaboration.
12. Measuring empathy in pharmacy students
13. Measuring empathy in pharmacy students.
14. Empathic and sympathetic orientations toward patient care: Conceptualization, measurement, and psychometrics
15. Medical students′ self-reported empathy and simulated patients′ assessments of student empathy: An analysis by gender and ethnicity
16. Measuring empathy in healthcare profession students using the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: Health provider - Student version
17. Peer nominations as related to academic attainment, empathy, personality, and specialty interest
18. A brief instrument to measure patients' overall satisfaction with primary care physicians
19. A comparison of medical students' self-reported empathy with simulated patients' assessments of the students' empathy
20. Physicians' empathy and clinical outcomes for diabetic patients

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