Empathy as a function of clinical exposure--reading emotion in the eyes.

BACKGROUND: Evidence based largely on self-report data suggests that factors associated with medical education erode the critical human quality of empathy. These reports have caused serious concern among medical educators and clinicians and have led to changes in medical curricula around the world....

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Main Authors: Cameron Handford, Jim Lemon, Michael C Grimm, Ute Vollmer-Conna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3673998?pdf=render