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Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy?

Empathy is the basis of a patient-physician relationship; however, this is being lost by students throughout medical training. Immersive virtual reality that allows individuals to viscerally experience anything from another person’s point of view has the potential to reverse the erosion of empathy a...

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Autores principales: Elzie, Carrie A., Shaia, Jacqueline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8368499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34457839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01101-0
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Sumario:Empathy is the basis of a patient-physician relationship; however, this is being lost by students throughout medical training. Immersive virtual reality that allows individuals to viscerally experience anything from another person’s point of view has the potential to reverse the erosion of empathy and improve clinical practices.