Improvement of Medical Students' Empathy Levels After an Intensive Experiential Training on Empathy Skills.

Background: EMPATHY IN HEALTHCARE is an intensive 20-hour experiential training program based on mediation techniques and specialized healthcare role-play for clinicians and medical students. It is hypothesized that the training will improve empathy via the intensive experiential techniques implemented.

Methods: A total of 50 medical students (25 males/25 females) took the course voluntarily.