Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Connections

Connections: How to teach students medical empathy

Can medical empathy be taught? Helping medical and nursing students understand the value of human, emotional connections is the goal of the Standardized Patient program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. It pairs patient actors with students, and charges students with empathically delivering bad news to the actors.

We discuss the program and the value of empathy in medical settings. In studio:

  • Dr. Robert Horowitz, M.D., chief and professor of palliative care in the Department of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Marta Brewer, former Standardized Patient educator at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Julie Gissin, actor in the Standardized Patient program at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • Dr. Nichole Roxas, URMC graduate and now psychiatry resident at Yale
  • Brett Dahlberg, health reporter and producer for WXXI News

Tags
Connections URMCmedicine
Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.
Megan Mack is the executive producer of "Connections with Evan Dawson" and live/televised engagement programming.
Related Content