An Overview Of Empathy Education ？n Medical Schools, What Can Be Done To Improve?

Empathy is an indispensable skill in medicine and an integral part of professionalism. When the world medical literature is analyzed, empathy is a concept that has gained inadequate scientific interest and has been in the shadow of the biomedical part of medicine and has gained importance in medical disciplines in terms of effective communication skills. Nowadays, communication skills education and which are part of empathy, are included in the academic programs of the faculties of medicine in many countries of the world. Although the studies on empathy have some inconsistencies, there are significant losses in empathy during and after medical education. It is thought that this negative situation can be compensated by changes in the education curriculum. Studies on this issue suggest that curriculum reforms and revisions to improve empathy should be based not on the modernist paradigm of medicine, but on the philosophical paradigm based on producing human relations, empathy and compassion