Background Empathic erosion and burnout represent crises within medicine. Psychological
training has been used to promote empathy and personal resilience, yet some training …

Context Medical education is committed to teaching patient centred communication and
empathy. However, quantitative research suggests empathy scores tend to decline as …

Empathy is extolled in Western healthcare and medical education as an exemplary quality to
cultivate in trainees and providers. Yet it remains an elusive and inadequately understood …

More than anything, I care about people. I am concerned about how the practices, structures,
values, and ways of thinking embedded in medical education—ie our ideology—shape the …

Introduction Silence is a part of all interactions, yet its potential significance within medical
education remains underexplored. Existing literature primarily focuses on its use as a skill …

In their contribution to this issue of Perspectives on Medical Education, Désilets et al.[1]
connect reflection, Professional Identity Formation (PIF), and authenticity in the context of …

Abstract Health Professions Education (HPE) is rightly concerned with the fostering of
empathic communication. Empathy is all about connection and attentive listening, which, in …

Kamel Daoud's debut novel Meursault, contre-enquête is a recasting of Camus' seminal
novel, L'Étranger. Daoud creates an overt and deliberate set of intertextual references to …

Adolescence is characterized by contradictions of role behaviours and perceptions caused
by age adjustment of adolescents. This is reflected in the system of self-attitudes of …

Medical students' self-reported empathy has been shown to decline when initiating their
clinical years. However, the interactional aspects of students' empathy have received sparse …