"There's no billing code for empathy" - Animated comics remind medical students of empathy: a qualitative study.

Background: Physician empathy is associated with improved diabetes outcomes. However, empathy declines throughout medical school training. This study seeks to describe how comics on diabetes affect learning processes for empathy in medical students.

Incentivizing health care behaviors in emerging adults: a systematic review.

Purpose: For emerging adults with chronic medical diseases, the transition from pediatric to adult health care is often a time of great upheaval, commonly associated with unhealthy self-management choices, loss to follow-up, and adverse outcomes. We conducted a systematic review to examine the use of incentive strategies to promote positive health-related behaviors in young adults with chronic medical diseases.

Methods: The Medline, CINAHL, Embase, PsycInfo, and Cochrane databases were searched through June 2014.