%0 Journal Article %T Teaching clinical empathy to undergraduate medical students of Dehradun: A quasi-experimental study %A Ashok K Srivastava %A Jayanti Semwal %A Kritika Tiwari %A Shaili Vyas %A Sunil Dutt Kandpal %J - %D 2017 %X Background:Empathy, the aptitude to resonate with others¡¯ emotions,influences favourable doctor-patient relationship and treatment outcome. The clinical empathy comes a cropper for medical students as they stride towards the completion of medical course. Empathy is a docile characteristic; hence the lamentable dwindling of clinical empathy is amenable to prevention by specially designed targeted interventions %U http://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/757