Clinical realism: a new literary genre and a potential tool for encouraging empathy in medical students.
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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. |
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2015
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BMC medical education
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15
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| Number of Pages |
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112
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2015
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https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-015-0372-8
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| DOI |
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10.1186/s12909-015-0372-8
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| Short Title |
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BMC Med Educ
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