# Empathy and Medical Education

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/empathy-and-medical-education-2/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 592,896 |
| Description | 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. |
| Domain | Health Sciences |
| Field | Medicine |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T11999 |
| Works | 91,220 |

## Topic researchers

Showing 12 of 20.

- [Daniel Kahneman](https://scholariq.org/researchers/daniel-kahneman/)
- [Gordon Guyatt](https://scholariq.org/researchers/gordon-guyatt/)
- [Dan J. Stein](https://scholariq.org/researchers/dan-j-stein/)
- [Elie A. Akl](https://scholariq.org/researchers/elie-a-akl/)
- [JoAnn E. Manson](https://scholariq.org/researchers/joann-e-manson/)
- [David A. Kenny](https://scholariq.org/researchers/david-a-kenny/)
- [Chris Frith](https://scholariq.org/researchers/chris-frith/)
- [Simon Baron‐Cohen](https://scholariq.org/researchers/simon-baron-cohen/)
- [Raymond J. Dolan](https://scholariq.org/researchers/raymond-j-dolan/)
- [Peter Tugwell](https://scholariq.org/researchers/peter-tugwell/)
- [Juliet Corbin](https://scholariq.org/researchers/juliet-corbin/)
- [Susan Michie](https://scholariq.org/researchers/susan-michie/)

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