Wit: Using Drama to Teach First-Year Medical Students about Empathy and Compassion

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 247-251

  Deloney, Linda A ^a,b   Graham, C James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EMPATHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; TEACHING;

EID: 0242690382     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1504_06     Document Type: Article

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