Background Empathy is pivotal to effective clinical care. Yet, the art of nurturing and
assessing empathy in medical schools is rarely consistent and poorly studied. To inform …

Background Reflective writing (RW) allows physicians to step back, review their thoughts,
goals and actions and recognise how their perspectives, motives and emotions impact their …

Background Narrative medicine has become a solution to cultivate medical students' ability
of empathy and humanistic care. However, the role of narrative medicine is lacking in the …

Introduction 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 …

Aim The aim of this study was to explore nursing and speech and language students'
perspectives of reflection as a clinical learning strategy during years three and four of their …

Reflective writing may be undervalued as purely expressive rather than a critical or an
academic tool in undergraduate public health biology courses. When grounded in course …

Methods: This cross-sectional study was done in Poonch Medical College, Azad Kashmir,
Pakistan, from May 2018 to May 2019. The sample size for this study consisted of 200 …

Objectives Empathy education is very important for medical students. There is little research
on the influence of early clinical practice on the development of empathy and other aspects …

We herein, describe the rationale, content, methodology and evaluation of a health
humanities module in the new competency-based curriculum, and share our experience of …

There is a long history of prosthetic and orthotic services helping to mitigate the impact of
physical impairment by restoring function, and enabling and equipping the user. The training …