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
Materias:
Innovation
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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spelling pubmed-83684992021-08-26 Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy? Elzie, Carrie A. Shaia, Jacqueline Med Sci Educ Innovation 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. Springer US 2020-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8368499/ /pubmed/34457839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01101-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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