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" It is concluded that a significant decline in empathy occurs during the third year of medical school. It is ironic that the erosion of empathy occurs during a time when the curriculum is shifting toward patient-care activities; this is when empathy is most essential. Implications for retaining and enhancing empathy are discussed."

"This study suggest that the described inhibitors of empathy may originate in the hidden curriculum and reinforce each other, creating a greater distance between the physician and the patient, and possibly resulting in decreased empathy. Mastering biomedical knowledge is an important part of the students' ideals of the physician's role, and sometimes objective and distanced ideals may suppress empathy and the students' own emotions. "

"These findings suggest that educational interventions can be effective in maintaining and enhancing empathy in undergraduate medical students. In addition, they highlight the need for multicenter, randomized controlled trials, reporting long-term data to evaluate the longevity of intervention effects. Defining empathy remains problematic, and the authors call for conceptual clarity to aid future research."

"There are three types of empathy (Goleman, 2007): Cognitive: knowing how another person feels and what they might be thinking Emotional: physically feeling what another person is feeling Compassionate: not only understanding a person's situation and feeling with them, but being moved to help them"

Very good video about empathy

"Empathy Training for Resident Physicians: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Neuroscience-Informed Curriculum"

Animated presentation from Jeremy Rifkin about how empathy developed in humans

"Because of its moral dimension, professionalism inevitably implicates qualities of humanism such as integrity, compassion, altruism, empathy, and respect toward others (ref 2). In my understanding at least, these are not fixed, once-and-for-all achievable attributes in which one can be certified as having attained "competency." "

"In developing the TEQ, we created a parsimonious scale that is short, clear and homogenous and has strong psychometric properties including a robust single factor structure, high internal consistency, construct validity and test re-test reliability. "

"Can compassion and empathy be taught? Can it be taught by older doctors serving as models? Does this mean that older physicians should allow their emotions to show on their faces when they are distressed by a patient's suffering?"

"The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. "

"The AMS Phoenix Project: A Call to Caring is based on the premise that health professionals provide the best care when they are able to balance human compassion and technical expertise. "

"Growing up in a family run care home, Andy Bradley discusses how his experiences with the elderly have helped him to better understand how we can provide compassionate care within our institutions."