Open AccessClinical Empathy in Graduate Medical Education
Author(s) -
Muhammad Shahid Shamim
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of the dow university of health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-2180
pISSN - 1995-2198
DOI - 10.36570/jduhs.2018.2.001
Subject(s) - empathy , feeling , medicine , psychotherapist , social psychology , psychiatry , psychology
What is clinical empathy? “Empathy” is defined as the ability to understand the other person's emotions, feelings and reactions and to communicate that understanding to the person 1 effectively. Clinical empathy is then the application of this process of understanding and communicating by a healthcare provider in his/her encounters with patients and their caretakers.
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