Using art to illustrate medical empathy to physician assistants
Christopher K. Cooper
Abstract:Physician assistant (PA) programs must teach medical communication skills that facilitate effective patient care. Empathy is one such skill that is explicitly mentioned in relevant documents, but there is no common definition of empathy nor a formal curriculum to teach it.Current literature suggests that empathy is a feeling resulting from cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes that are observable and teachable. This constructivist grounded theory study articulated a definition of medical empathy, then… Show more
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