Context Person‐centeredness is a stated aim for medical education; however, studies
suggest this is not being achieved. There is a gap in our understanding of how, why and in …

Despite advocacy and recommendations to improve health care and health for persons who
identify as women, women continue to face inequities in access to and quality of care …

It is often the case that good teachers just “intuitively” know how to teach. Whilst that may be
true, there is now a greater need to understand the various processes that underpin both the …

Purpose Given barriers of patient-centred care (PCC) among physicians and trainees, this
study assessed how medical schools addressed PCC in curriculum. Method The authors …

Background To improve patient safety, educational interventions on all system levels,
including medical school are necessary. Sound theoretical knowledge on elements …

Purpose: To explore first-year medical students' affective reactions to intimate encounters
with severely sick patients in their homes, within a curricular innovation targeting the …

Introduction Effective communication during health encounters is known to decrease patient
complaints, increase patient adherence and optimise health outcomes. While the aim of …

Background Evidence indicates that communication skills teaching learnt in the classroom
are not often readily transferable to the assessment methods that are applied nor to the …

Medical students' efforts to learn person-centered thinking and behavior can fall short due to
the dissonance between person-centered clinical ideals and the prevailing epistemological …

Background Studies have demonstrated that empathic communication improves patient
outcomes and helps doctors to deliver accurate symptom reports and diagnoses. These …