Journal article
Carrie A. Elzie, Jacqueline Shaia
Medical science educator, vol. 30(4), 2020 Oct 30, pp. 1737-1739
Medical science educator, vol. 30(4), 2020 Oct 30, pp. 1737-1739
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Elzie, C. A., & Shaia, J. (2020). Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy? Medical Science Educator, 30(4), 1737–1739.
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Elzie, Carrie A., and Jacqueline Shaia. “Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy?” Medical science educator 30, no. 4 (October 30, 2020): 1737–1739.
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Elzie, Carrie A., and Jacqueline Shaia. “Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy?” Medical Science Educator, vol. 30, no. 4, Oct. 2020, pp. 1737–39.
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@article{carrie2020a,
title = {Virtually Walking in a Patient’s Shoes—the Path to Empathy?},
year = {2020},
month = oct,
day = {30},
issue = {4},
journal = {Medical science educator},
pages = {1737-1739},
volume = {30},
author = {Elzie, Carrie A. and Shaia, Jacqueline},
month_numeric = {10}
}
Abstract
Empathy is the basis of a patient-physician relationship; however, this is being lost by students throughout medical training. Immersive virtual reality that allows individuals to viscerally experience anything from another person’s point of view has the potential to reverse the erosion of empathy and improve clinical practices.
