Medical students’ preclinical service-learning experience and its effects on empathy in clinical training

Abstract Background Service learning (SL) is an educational methodology presumed to help medical students be more empathetic and compassionate. We longitudinally investigated the level of empathy in medical students and how preclinical SL experience was related to their level of empathy in their cli...

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Main Authors: Yi-Sheng Yang, Pei-Chin Liu, Yung Kai Lin, Chia-Der Lin, Der-Yuan Chen, Blossom Yen-Ju Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02739-z