Table 2.

Veterinary student pre appointment survey.

Demographics

What would best describe you?

What is your gender?

What is your age?

Have you completed your Pets for Life appointment day as part of your Shelter Medicine rotation?

Jefferson scale of empathy rated on a scale from 1 to 7 (strongly disagree to strongly agree). Three items out of 20 are listed for illustrative purposes

2. Patients feel better when their physicians understand their feelings.

7. Attention to patients' emotions is not important in history taking.

14. I believe that emotion has no place in the treatment of medical illness.