People skills, pre-meds, medical students and doctors

No idea who that guy is, but he references a study covering 1990-2010. A lot is/has been changing quickly, in med school attempts to build good doctoring. In fact, that sort of study may be part of what led to some changes.

Here it is.

http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2011/08000/Empathy_Decline_and_Its_Reasons__A_Systematic.24.aspx

Also check the author backgrounds.