Open AccessChanges in empathy during Medical Education: An example from Turkey
Author(s) -
Füsun Artıran İğde,
Mustafa Kürşat Şahin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pakistan journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1682-024X
pISSN - 1681-715X
DOI - 10.12669/pjms.335.13074
Subject(s) - empathy , medicine , turkish , curriculum , family medicine , medical school , medical education , psychiatry , psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy
Empathy is a key element of patient- physician communication; it is relevant to and positively influences patients' health. In this study we aimed to present the Turkey example for the empathy change during the medical faculty training.