Impact of a narrative medicine programme on healthcare providers’ empathy scores over time
Abstract Background The cultivation of empathy for healthcare providers is an important issue in medical education. Narrative medicine (NM) has been shown to foster empathy. To our knowledge, there has been no research that examines whether a NM programme affects multi-professional healthcare provid...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-07-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Education |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12909-017-0952-x |