Exploring Empathy with Medical Students
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 under
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Exploring Empathy with Medical Students
David Ian Jeffrey
Exploring Empathy with Medical Students
David Ian Jeffrey University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
ISBN 978-3-030-11210-3 ISBN 978-3-030-11211-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11211-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966691 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the sixteen medical students who took part in this study for sharing their experiences of their undergraduate education, for their enthusiasm and their commitment to the research. I am grateful to my Ph.D. supervisors, Marilyn Kendall, Marie Fallon, Michael Ross and Lesley Dawson for their patience and wise advice. I owe thanks to Marshall Dozier, Linda Pollock, Scott Murray and many other colleagues who provided helpful advice. I wish to thank Joanna O’Neill, Grace Jackson, Hemapriya Eswanth, Ashwini Elango, Julia Rosche and the publishing team at Palgrave Macmillan for their encouragement and advice. Thanks also to the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for a Myre Sim bursary to support the costs of transcription of the students’ interviews. Finally, I would like to thank my wife Pru for her support and encouragement.
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 Overview 1 The Nature of Empathy 1 The Empathy Gap 3 A Decline in Medical Students’ Empathy 5 A Phenomenological Approach to Research 6 My Motivation to Carry Out the Research 7 Research Aims 8 Audience for the Book 8 Overview of the Book 9 Key Points 11 References 11 2 The Research Setting and Stu
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