# Empathy and Medical Education

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

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 | t11999 |
| Works | 99 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 99.

- [SANRA—a scale for the quality assessment of narrative review articles](https://scholariq.org/papers/sanra-a-scale-for-the-quality-assessment-of-narrative-review-articles/)
- [Person-Centered Care — Ready for Prime Time](https://scholariq.org/papers/person-centered-care-ready-for-prime-time/)
- [Efficacy of a Cancer Research UK communication skills training model for oncologists: a randomised controlled trial](https://scholariq.org/papers/efficacy-of-a-cancer-research-uk-communication-skills-training-model-for/)
- [Deconstructing the Placebo Effect and Finding the Meaning Response](https://scholariq.org/papers/deconstructing-the-placebo-effect-and-finding-the-meaning-response/)
- [A Review of Psychosocial Outcomes for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Surgery](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-review-of-psychosocial-outcomes-for-patients-seeking-cosmetic-surgery/)
- [The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-relationship-between-physician-empathy-and-disease-complications/)
- [Do medical devices have enhanced placebo effects?](https://scholariq.org/papers/do-medical-devices-have-enhanced-placebo-effects/)
- [Oncologist Communication About Emotion During Visits With Patients With Advanced Cancer](https://scholariq.org/papers/oncologist-communication-about-emotion-during-visits-with-patients-with-advanced/)
- [Assessing dispositional empathy in adults: A French validation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI).](https://scholariq.org/papers/assessing-dispositional-empathy-in-adults-a-french-validation-of-the/)
- [Teaching Empathy to First Year Medical Students: Evaluation of an Elective Literature and Medicine Course](https://scholariq.org/papers/teaching-empathy-to-first-year-medical-students-evaluation-of-an-elective/)
- [Pain and emotion: New research directions](https://scholariq.org/papers/pain-and-emotion-new-research-directions/)
- [Preoperative anxiety in ambulatory surgery: The impact of an empathic patient-centered approach on psychological and clinical outcomes](https://scholariq.org/papers/preoperative-anxiety-in-ambulatory-surgery-the-impact-of-an-empathic-patient/)
- [A concept analysis of empathy](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-concept-analysis-of-empathy/)
- [Can Metaphors and Analogies Improve Communication with Seriously Ill Patients?](https://scholariq.org/papers/can-metaphors-and-analogies-improve-communication-with-seriously-ill-patients/)
- [Staging data: Theatre as a tool for analysis and knowledge transfer in health research](https://scholariq.org/papers/staging-data-theatre-as-a-tool-for-analysis-and-knowledge-transfer-in-health/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 34.

- [The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-relationship-between-physician-empathy-and-disease-complications/)
- [Oncologist Communication About Emotion During Visits With Patients With Advanced Cancer](https://scholariq.org/papers/oncologist-communication-about-emotion-during-visits-with-patients-with-advanced/)
- [Assessing dispositional empathy in adults: A French validation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI).](https://scholariq.org/papers/assessing-dispositional-empathy-in-adults-a-french-validation-of-the/)
- [Teaching Empathy to First Year Medical Students: Evaluation of an Elective Literature and Medicine Course](https://scholariq.org/papers/teaching-empathy-to-first-year-medical-students-evaluation-of-an-elective/)
- [A concept analysis of empathy](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-concept-analysis-of-empathy/)
- [Exploring theory of mind after severe traumatic brain injury](https://scholariq.org/papers/exploring-theory-of-mind-after-severe-traumatic-brain-injury/)
- [Can we predict burnout severity from empathy-related brain activity?](https://scholariq.org/papers/can-we-predict-burnout-severity-from-empathy-related-brain-activity/)
- [Empathy and burnout: an analytic cross-sectional study among nurses and nursing students.](https://scholariq.org/papers/empathy-and-burnout-an-analytic-cross-sectional-study-among-nurses-and-nursing/)
- [The art of medicine: arts-based training in observation and mindfulness for fostering the empathic response in medical residents](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-art-of-medicine-arts-based-training-in-observation-and-mindfulness-for/)
- [Help of third‐year medical students decreases first‐year medical students' negative psychological reactions on the first day of gross anatomy dissection](https://scholariq.org/papers/help-of-third-year-medical-students-decreases-first-year-medical-students/)
- [Medical Humanities Coursework Is Associated with Greater Measured Empathy in Medical Students](https://scholariq.org/papers/medical-humanities-coursework-is-associated-with-greater-measured-empathy-in/)
- [Using theatre in education in a traditional lecture oriented medical curriculum](https://scholariq.org/papers/using-theatre-in-education-in-a-traditional-lecture-oriented-medical-curriculum/)
- [Point-of-view writing: A method for increasing medical students' empathy, identification and expression of emotion, and insight](https://scholariq.org/papers/point-of-view-writing-a-method-for-increasing-medical-students-empathy/)
- [Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Empathy Measures: A Comparison of the Measurement Precision, Construct Validity, and Incremental Validity of Two Multidimensional Indices](https://scholariq.org/papers/strengths-and-weaknesses-of-two-empathy-measures-a-comparison-of-the-measurement/)
- [Emotional intelligence, empathy and alexithymia: a cross-sectional survey on emotional competence in a group of nursing students.](https://scholariq.org/papers/emotional-intelligence-empathy-and-alexithymia-a-cross-sectional-survey-on/)

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