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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How has Empathy and Medical Education's publication output changed over time?

ScholarIQpublication output · 2006–2019

Output grew0% over the shown period — from 1 works in 2006 to 1 in 2019.

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What are the most-cited papers on Empathy and Medical Education?

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The Relationship Between Physician Empathy and Disease Complications

Stefano Del Canale, Daniel Z. Louis, Vittorio Maio, Xiaohong Wang, Giuseppina Rossi, Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S. Gonnella

Academic Medicine. 2012513 Citations

Oncologist Communication About Emotion During Visits With Patients With Advanced Cancer

Kathryn I. Pollak, Robert M. Arnold, Amy S. Jeffreys, Stewart C. Alexander, Maren K. Olsen, Amy P. Abernethy, Celette Sugg Skinner, Keri L. Rodriguez, James A. Tulsky

Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2007406 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

Assessing dispositional empathy in adults: A French validation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI).

Anne-Laure Gilet, Nathalie Mella, Joseph Studer, Daniel Grühn, Gisela Labouvie‐Vief

S61831462. 2012290 CitationsOPEN ACCESS

Teaching Empathy to First Year Medical Students: Evaluation of an Elective Literature and Medicine Course

Johanna Shapiro, Elizabeth Morrison, John Boker

S4210169325. 2004280 Citations

A concept analysis of empathy

Theresa Wiseman

Journal of Advanced Nursing. 1996212 Citations