Tahmina Begum
Communication between patients and health professionals is seen as the core clinical function in building a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship, which is the heart and art of the medicine. Patients satisfaction is strongly influenced by the quality of the communication that occurs. Effective co...
Chris Gibbons, Martin Dempster, Marianne Moutray
AIM: This paper is a report of a study to identify experiences that led to both distress and eustress and to make recommendations to help students cope with course demands. BACKGROUND: Much of the research on stress in nursing students is quantitative in focus and all draws on their experience of di...
Asma Mostafa, Rozina Hoque, Mohammad Mostafa, Md. Mashud Rana et al.
Empathy is considered to be associated with better patient compliance, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes. The aim of the study is to measure and examine empathy among a sample of undergraduate medical students of Bangladesh. It was a cross-sectional study and all the medical students of first thro...
Adelina Alcorta-Garza, Montserrat San-Martín, Roberto C. Delgado Bolton, Jorge Soler-González et al.
CONTEXT: Medical educators agree that empathy is essential for physicians' professionalism. The Health Professional Version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE-HP) was developed in response to a need for a psychometrically sound instrument to measure empathy in the context of patient care. Althou...
Abu Sadat Mohammad Nurunnabi, Riffat Rahim, Dilara Alo, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
In clinical education, experiential learning can be an important component of the instructional process. We know that in medical college hospitals, learning that takes place at patient’s bed side or in wards is totally different from learning that takes place in the classroom. Each patient encounter...
Joy M. de Vries-Erich, Tim Dornan, Tobias B.B. Boerboom, Debbie Jaarsma et al.
CONTEXT: Patient care evokes emotional responses such as uncertainty, grief and pride in medical students. There is a need for opportunities to share and express such emotions because they influence students' professional development and well-being. There is a trend towards introducing mentor progra...
Clare O’Callaghan, Fiona McDermott, Philippa Reid, Natasha Michael et al.
BACKGROUND: Evidence supports music-based oncologic support interventions including music therapy. By comparison, little is understood about music-based self-care. This meta-ethnography examined five published qualitative studies to extend understanding of music's relevance, including helpfulness, f...
Clare O'Callaghan, Fiona McDermott, Natasha Michael, Barbara A Daveson et al.
Purpose Music has historically aided health and loss-adaptation, however, cancer patients' experience of music for self-care is not well understood. This study examines adult cancer patients' views about music's role before and after diagnosis. Methods Constructivist approach, with grounded theory i...
Roy Rillera Marzo
Medical knowledge, skills, and social requirements for patient care are quickly changing, thus, doctors are anticipated to be life-long learners to provide effective care for the patients. This paper addresses instructional issues how to prepare medical students to be self-directed learners and how ...
Imam Zafar Numanee, Nazneen Zafar, Abdul Karim, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed Ismail
Empathy, as an essential personality trait of human beings, has been studied rigorously in the field of nursing and medical sciences. Nowadays, universities are also endeavoring to develop empathy with particular courses or tailored content among the students. The English language classroom acts as ...
Andreas Eriksen
There is widespread agreement that the art/science dichotomy is obsolete; professional practice must accommodate both experience-based judgment and evidence-based tools. However, there is little agreement on what this reconciliation entails, partly because we lack a conceptualization of the professi...
Mainul Haque, Bidyadhar Sa, Md Anwarul Azim Majumder, MdZakirul Islam et al.
Background: Empathy is one of the cardinal components for physician-patient relationships, optimal outcomes in patient care, improved patient satisfaction, greater adherence to therapy, and lower malpractice liability. It is also considered an essential quality for health-care professionals to pract...
Aminur Rahman
AbstractAs in many other countries, in Bangladesh there is an increasing public dissatisfaction with the medical profession. In the observation of the researcher, this dissatisfaction is not due to the lack of clinical competence but due to problems of communication. A qualitative survey was done to...
Mohammed Razi, Rinat Fouzia, Mohammed S. Razzaque
Empathy is a crucial human quality that enables healthcare professionals to connect with patients, providing physical and emotional support to enhance patient-centered care. Empathy in healthcare is critical for establishing patient-provider (healthcare) trust, increasing patient satisfaction, and, ...
Susan MacDonald, Sarah Symonds LeBlanc, Nancy Dalgarno, Karen Schultz et al.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the perspectives of family medicine preceptors and residents, including their interest and intent to participate in and their knowledge and willingness to teach or learn about medical assistance in dying (MAID). DESIGN: Two anonymous surveys were distributed via e-mail using a ...