Table 1. Student ratings for pre - and post-test for the intervention group.

Learning gain	Intervention Group				t or z	p-value
	Pre		Post
	M	SE	M	SE
Self-administered questionnaires
Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE)	31.14	0.33	32.09	0.43	2.39	0.02*
Empathy Quotient (EQ)
Cognitive Empathy (CE)	10.45	0.33	10.23	0.41	-0.63	0.53
Emotional Reactivity (ER)	10.54	0.32	9.88	0.39	-1.96	0.05
Cognitive task
Visuo-Spatial Perspective Taking (VSPT)
Right	-0.86	0.68	-1.54	0.84	-0.96	0.34
Left	-24.11	4.44	-11.05	2.10	3.87	0,0001*
Both	-10.31	1.82	-13.01	4.38	-0.71	0.48
Privileged Knowledge (PK)
Medical stories	4.04	0.16	4.21	0.22	0.75	0.46
Daiy stories	3.30	0.19	3.00	0.27	-1.02	0.31
Pain intensity
Pen pictures	0.93	0.12	0.92	0.16	-0.04	0.97
Needle pictures	2.87	0.19	2.92	0.26	0.21	0.84