Organizational and Team-Based Empathy: Enhancing Medical Ethics Consultation

Enhancing and sustaining empathy in medical students.

BACKGROUND Empathy is an important component of physician competence that needs to be enhanced. AIM To test the hypotheses that medical students' empathy can be enhanced and sustained by targeted activities. METHODS This was a two-phase study in which 248 medical students participated. In Phase 1, students in the experimental group watched and discussed video clips of patient encounters mea...

The medical emergency team, evidence-based medicine and ethics.

The medical emergency team (MET), which may be summoned by anyone in a hospital to treat a patient who appears acutely unwell, has been generally accepted as scientifically rational, with no adverse clinical outcomes and only modest resource requirements. Despite this, many centres appear to be awaiting "gold standard" evidence of its effectiveness. We suggest that the quest for evidence is pro...

The consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure: development and preliminary validation and reliability of an empathy-based consultation process measure.

BACKGROUND Empathy is a key aspect of the clinical encounter but there is a lack of patient-assessed measures suitable for general clinical settings. OBJECTIVES Our aim was to develop a consultation process measure based on a broad definition of empathy, which is meaningful to patients irrespective of their socio-economic background. METHODS Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used...

Ethics Consultation and Autonomy

Services of ethics consultants are nowadays commonly used in such various spheres of life as engineering, public administration, business, law, health care, journalism, and scientific research. It has however been maintained that use of ethics consultants is incompatible with personal autonomy; in moral matters individuals should be allowed to make their own decisions. The problem this criticis...

Ethics consultation and "facilitated" consensus.