Exploring Empathy with Medical Students

• Main Author: Jeffrey, David Ian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Emotions.; Industrial psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Medical education.; Premedical education.; Emotion.; Industrial and Organizational Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Medical Education.; Premedical Education.

This book investigates new insights into the factors influencing empathy in medical students. Addressing the widely perceived empathy gap in teaching and medical practice, the book presents a new study into how this emotion is facilitated in the UK undergraduate medical curriculum, and its influence...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The research setting and study design
• Chapter 3: Empathy: from attribute to relationship
• Chapter 4: Emotions and Empathy
• Chapter 5: Enhancing Empathy
• Chapter 6: Barriers to empathy: The Medical School Culture
• Chapter 7: Barriers to empathy: The Curriculum
• Chapter 8: Changes in students' empathy during their training
• Chapter 9: Summary and Implications.