Empathy and Medical Education
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This cluster of papers explores the topic of empathy in medicine, focusing on the decline of empathy in medical students and physicians, the factors influencing empathy, its impact on patient outcomes and satisfaction, and various training interventions aimed at cultivating and sustaining empathy in healthcare professionals. The papers also discuss the role of narrative medicine, arts-based interventions, and neuroscience in understanding and promoting empathy in clinical practice.
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medical humanities; narrative medicine; physician empathy; Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy; empathy training; empathy measurement; clinical empathy; physician self-reflection; medical humanities education; health humanities; literature in medical education; Jefferson Scale of Empathy; empathy in medicine; nurse empathy; empathy decline; storytelling in medicine; gender differences in empathy; medical empathy; Rita Charon; physician emotions; poetry and medicine; Toronto Empathy Questionnaire; barriers to empathy; empathy levels; physician narratives
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Morton address: 36249527338838506 · morton4x16-v1
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