Abstract
A n emerging theme in medical education is the need to expose students to patients as early as possible in their undergraduate training. This is motivated by the desire to teach them a ‘holistic’ approach to patients and their problems, to encourage them to focus on the patient as ‘an individual’, and to give importance to patients’ ideas, concerns and expectations, as opposed to focusing only on their medical problems. In addition, empathy may be learned through spending time in conversation with patients, listening to their stories, and sharing their experiences. Real patient encounters before the clinical phase of undergraduate medical education are now recommended to stimulate the integration of theory and practice.
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