Creating a Medical School Curriculum to Teach Empathy

INTRODUCTION The importance of empathy lies in the fact that increased levels have been shown to improve multiple patient-related outcomes.1,2 Empathy expands a physician’s ability to diagnose and treat patients and can be understood as knowing the worries and anxieties of patients without joining in the sentiment of their emotional pain.3 Through this understanding, the physician understands their patients more completely.4 In this article, we...