Exploring Empathy with Medical Students / by David Ian Jeffrey.
2019
BF531-BF593
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Title
Exploring Empathy with Medical Students / by David Ian Jeffrey.
Author
Jeffrey, David Ian., author
ISBN
9783030112110
303011211X
3030112101
9783030112103
303011211X
3030112101
9783030112103
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XII, 238 pages 2 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-11211-0 doi
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BF531-BF593
Dewey Decimal Classification
152.4
Summary
This book investigates new insights into the factors influencing empathy in medical students. Addressing the widely perceived empathy gap in teaching and medical practice, the book presents a new study into how this emotion is facilitated in the UK undergraduate medical curriculum, and its influence on doctor-patient relationships. The author utilises Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to investigate how medical students' perspective on empathy changed throughout their education. It presents the risks students perceive when connecting emotionally with patients; their use of detachment as a taught coping mechanism; and the question of how they regulate their emotions. 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. 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).
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The research setting and study design
Chapter 3: Empathy: from attribute to relationship
Chapter 4: Emotions and Empathy
Chapter 5: Enhancing Empathy
Chapter 6: Barriers to empathy: The Medical School Culture
Chapter 7: Barriers to empathy: The Curriculum
Chapter 8: Changes in students' empathy during their training
Chapter 9: Summary and Implications.
Chapter 2: The research setting and study design
Chapter 3: Empathy: from attribute to relationship
Chapter 4: Emotions and Empathy
Chapter 5: Enhancing Empathy
Chapter 6: Barriers to empathy: The Medical School Culture
Chapter 7: Barriers to empathy: The Curriculum
Chapter 8: Changes in students' empathy during their training
Chapter 9: Summary and Implications.