Clinical realism: a new literary genre and a potential tool for encouraging empathy in medical students.
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| Abstract | :
Empathy has been re-discovered as a desirable quality in doctors. A number of approaches using the medical humanities have been advocated to teach empathy to medical students. This paper describes a new approach using the medium of creative writing and a new narrative genre: clinical realism. |
| Year of Publication | :
2015
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| Journal | :
BMC medical education
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| Volume | :
15
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| Number of Pages | :
112
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| Date Published | :
2015
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| URL | :
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-015-0372-8
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| DOI | :
10.1186/s12909-015-0372-8
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| Short Title | :
BMC Med Educ
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