BackgroundWe aimed to assess medical students' empathy and its associations with gender, stage of medical school, quality of life and burnout.MethodA cross-sectional, multi-centric (22 medical schools) study that employed online, validated, self-reported questionnaires on empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index), quality of life (The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment) and burnout (the Maslach Burnout Inventory) in a random sample of medical students.ResultsOut of a total of 1,650 randomly selected students, 1,350 (81.8%) completed all of the questionnaires. Female students exhibited higher dispositional empathic concern and experienced more personal distress than their male counterparts (p<0.05; d≥0.5). There were minor differences in the empathic dispositions of students in different stages of their medical training (p<0.05; f<0.25). Female students had slightly lower scores for physical and psychological quality of life than male students (p<0.05; d<0.5). Female students scored higher on emotional exhaustion and lower on depersonalization than male students (p<0.001; d<0.5). Students in their final stage of medical school had slightly higher scores for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment (p<0.05; f<0.25). Gender (β = 0.27; p<0.001) and perspective taking (β = 0.30; p<0.001) were significant predictors of empathic concern scores. Depersonalization was associated with lower empathic concern (β = −0.18) and perspective taking (β = −0.14) (p<0.001). Personal accomplishment was associated with higher perspective taking (β = 0.21; p<0.001) and lower personal distress (β = −0.26; p<0.001) scores.ConclusionsFemale students had higher empathic concern and personal distress dispositions. The differences in the empathy scores of students in different stages of medical school were small. Among all of the studied variables, personal accomplishment held the most important association with decreasing personal distress and was also a predicting variable for perspective taking.

Introduction: Medical students' quality of life and mental health may affect their academic performance and their attitudes towards medical care. Recent evidence shows a preponderant role of the learning environment in the quality of life of medical students. This study aimed to assess Brazilian medical students' quality of life throughout all years of medical school. Methods: Cross-sectional multi-centric study with the

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Analisaram-se, à luz do construcionismo social, músicas de funk com ampla repercussão midiática e compartilhamento em serviços de streaming, cujos discursos remetem à violência sexual – Baile de Favela e Malandramente. A apreciação ocorreu por meio da análise dialógica, sendo, após, construído o mapa dialógico. Os resultados mostram a construção da vítima perfeita, que naturaliza a violência sexual por meio da culpabilização da vítima, a erotização da infância na construção de vítimas e agressores, cuja puerilidade é ironizada naturalizando a violência sexual e a exaltação do estupro coletivo, explorando possibilidades de relações sexuais permeadas pela violência de gênero. Os achados descortinaram um panorama preocupante. À parte do importante papel do funk como prática cultural emancipatória, os sentidos da violência sexual nos discursos expuseram a construção de relações conflituosas entre os gêneros como norma social.