Fifty Years of Findings from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education (PDF)

data sets constructed with funding from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, The American Board of Family Medicine, and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He completed his B.S. at Drexel University, and his M.S. and doctoral coursework in measurement, evaluation and research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer DeSantis received her M.Ed. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Vassar College. Her work focuses on empathy in medical education and health care both at Jefferson University, as well as nationally and internationally in collaboration with other institutions. Her background is in educational research and psychological sciences.

Mohammadreza Hojat received his B.A. degree in educational psychology from Pahlavi University (currently University of Shiraz), his M.A. degree in psychology from the University of Tehran, and his Ph.D. in psychological services from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hojat is a licensed psychologist, and has published more than 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 13 book chapters on educational, psychological, and social issues. Dr. Hojat has developed 10 psychometrically sound instruments (including the well-known Jefferson Scale of Empathy) for the assessment of health professions education and patient outcomes. Dr. Hojat's research on measurement, development, erosion, enhancement, and correlates of empathy in health professions education and patient care has received broad media coverage, featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, the National Public Radio and television program segments. Dr. Hojat has served as a co-editor of two books: Loneliness:Theory, Research, and Applications (Sage Publications, 1987), and Assessment Measures in Medical School, Residency, and Practice: The Connections (Springer, 1993). The second edition of his seminal book "Empathy in Health Professions Education and Patient Care" was published in 2016 (Springer International Publishing).