Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review

Sundip Patel; Alexis Pelletier-Bui; Stephanie Smith; Michael B. Roberts; Hope Kilgannon; Stephen Trzeciak; Brian W. Roberts

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0221412

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Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review

Sundip Patel,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America
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Alexis Pelletier-Bui,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America
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Stephanie Smith,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America
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Michael B. Roberts,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institutional Research and Outcomes Assessment, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Hope Kilgannon,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America, Center for Humanism, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America
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Stephen Trzeciak,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Humanism, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America
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Brian W. Roberts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: roberts-brian-w@cooperhealth.edu

Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Health Care, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America, Center for Humanism, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7690-997X

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Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review

Sundip Patel,
Alexis Pelletier-Bui,
Stephanie Smith,
Michael B. Roberts,
Hope Kilgannon,
Stephen Trzeciak,
Brian W. Roberts

Published: August 22, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221412

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