Changing characteristics of the empathic communication network after empathy-enhancement program for medical students

The Empathy-Enhancement Program for Medical Students (EEPMS) comprises five consecutive weekly sessions and aims to improve medical students’ empathic ability, an essential component of humanistic medical professionalism. Using a graph theory approach for the Ising network (based on l 1 -regularized logistic regression) comprising emotional regulation, empathic understanding of others’ emotion, and emotional expressivity, this study aimed to...