Overview
Investigates new insights into the factors influencing empathy in medical students
Addressing the widely perceived empathy gap in teaching and medical practice
Argues for greater involvement of the social sciences in medical education
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
- medical undergraduate
- interpersonal empathy
- intrapersonal empathy
- Prosocial Behaviours
- medical education
- Bedside teaching
- Burnout
- Emotional regulation
- ethics in medicine
- General Medical Council (GMC)
- studying medicine
- Problem-based learning
- Professional detachment
About this book
The book reveals the tension between students’ connection with and detachment from a patient and their aim to achieve an appropriate balance. The author presents a number of factors which seem to enhance empathy, and explores the balance of scientific biomedical versus psychosocial approaches in medical training. In contrast to the commonly-reported opinion that there has been decline in medical students’ empathy, this book contends that student empathy in fact increased during their training. This new study offers invaluable insight into how students and practitioners may be supported in dealing appropriately with their emotions as well as with those of their patients, thereby facilitating more humane medical care.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Ian Jeffrey is Honorary Lecturer in Palliative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK and formerly Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Cheltenham UK. Previous published books include, Medical Mentoring (2014) and (co-author E. Jeffrey) Enhancing Compassion in End-of-Life Care Through Drama (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Empathy with Medical Students
Authors: David Ian Jeffrey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11211-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11210-3Published: 05 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11211-0Published: 28 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emotion, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Medical Education, Premedical Education