Empathy is an important element of physician-patient communication. Empathy is linked to a number of attributes such as patient treatment compliance and satisfaction, better history taking and physical examination and therefore achieving better clinical outcomes. Previous research indicates that self-reported empathy among medical students declines during the course of their medical education a...

BACKGROUND Workforce planning is a central issue for service provision and has consequences for medical education. Much work has been examined the career intentions, career preferences and career destinations of UK medical graduates but there is little published about medical students career intentions. How soon do medical students formulate careers intentions? How much do these intentions and ...

The doctor-patient relationship has developed from unspecified good bedside manner to patient-centered medicine with an increasing focus upon the recognition of patients’ ethical and legal rights. In any given clinical situation, our medical decisions are made in the balance between the physician’s knowledge and experience, and the patient and his relatives’ values and preferences. Shared decis...