What is it about?
Educators need to develop a new set of competencies to improve patient care and reduce distance. The humanities are potential education tool to humanise health students and future practitioners.
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Why is it important?
There is increasing evidence that health care practitioners are not a empathic and caring as we would like. It is time to rethink how we are educating the future workforce.
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I am passionate about the educating our students to be emphatic and caring workers and feel it is essential that we raise the debate .
Sue Dean
University of Technology Sydney
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This page is a summary of: How education must reawaken empathy, Journal of Advanced Nursing, January 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13239.
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