title: Increasing empathy among medical students.
abstract: The objective of the research was to evaluate the short- and long-term effectiveness of teaching medical students interviewing skills. Methods of teaching communication skills included a workshop for clinical instructors, as an indirect approach, a workshop for medical students, as a direct approach, and a combination of both. Results demonstrated that in order to stimulate medical students to use supporting-interview skills, they themselves should participate in an interpersonal skills workshop. Being taught these skills by teachers who have participated in the workshop does not have the same positive effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Counseling and Education, University of Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ber
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D002982:Clinical Clerkship; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*