Healthy Discoveries - Empathy Training

Doctors taught empathy techniques by theater professors show improved bedside manner, according to a pilot study by a Virginia Commonwealth University research team. The findings may help in the development of medical curriculum for clinical empathy training. Clinical empathy skills allow doctors to recognize a patient's emotional status and to respond to the patient's needs. Patients often identify empathy skills, such as understanding, listening and honesty, as important traits in their primary care physicians.

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