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- Title
Towards an empathic hidden curriculum in medical school: A roadmap.
- Authors
Howick, Jeremy; Slavin, Daniel; Carr, Sue; Miall, Fiona; Ohri, Chandra; Ennion, Steve; Gay, Simon
- Abstract
The "hidden curriculum" in medical school includes a stressful work environment, un‐empathic role models, and prioritisation of biomedical knowledge. It can provoke anxiety and cause medical students to adapt by becoming cynical, distanced and less empathic. Lower empathy, in turn, has been shown to harm patients as well as practitioners. Fortunately, evidence‐based interventions can counteract the empathy dampening effects of the hidden curriculum. These include early exposure to real patients, providing students with real‐world experiences, training role models, assessing empathy training, increasing the focus on the biopsychosocial model of disease, and enhanced wellbeing education. Here, we provide an overview of these interventions. Taken together, they can bring about an "empathic hidden curriculum" which can reverse the decline in medical student empathy.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; CURRICULUM; MEDICAL education; WORK environment; ANXIETY; MEDICAL schools; COMMUNICATION; ROLE models; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGY of medical students; WELL-being; BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL model
- Publication
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 4, p525
- ISSN
1356-1294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jep.13966