TY - JOUR AU - Kelm, Zak AU - Womer, James AU - Walter, Jennifer K. AU - Feudtner, Chris PY - 2014 DA - 2014/10/14 TI - Interventions to cultivate physician empathy: a systematic review JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 219 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Physician empathy is both theoretically and empirically critical to patient health, but research indicates that empathy declines throughout medical school and is lower than ideal among physicians. In this paper, we synthesize the published literature regarding interventions that were quantitatively evaluated to detect changes in empathy among medical students, residents, fellows and physicians. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-14-219 DO - 10.1186/1472-6920-14-219 ID - Kelm2014 ER -