Insight from a novel humanities-based education intervention to teach empathy to internal medicine residents locally

The medical humanities have the potential to develop empathy in junior doctors through perspective taking and critique of deep-seated beliefs.An education intervention to develop empathy was integrated into an internal medicine residency curriculum in Singapore.All junior residents currently in the programme were invited to participate in individua

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Sick-listed employees with severe medically unexplained physical symptoms: burden or routine for the occupational health physician? A cross sectional study

Abstract Background The two primary objectives of this study were to the assess consultation load of occupational health physicians (OHPs), and their difficulties and needs with regard to their sickness certification tasks in sick-listed employees with severe medical unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).Third objective was to determine which diseas

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