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Empathy in health professions education: What works, gaps and areas for improvement

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Developing a physician equipped with both technical and affective skills is crucial in ensuring quality patient care. Of these skills, nurturing empathy is a key skill that has been studied… Click to show full abstract

Developing a physician equipped with both technical and affective skills is crucial in ensuring quality patient care. Of these skills, nurturing empathy is a key skill that has been studied in great detail, particularly among medical undergraduates. Despite numerous studies trending the changes in empathy, the results are often contradictory or confusing. Our study aims to find what interventions are effective to inculcate empathy in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and suggest areas for improvement.

Keywords: improvement; education works; health professions; professions education; areas improvement; empathy health

Journal Title: Medical Education
Year Published: 2022

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