Shakespeare as a vehicle for empathy and diagnostic skills training in undergraduate medical students in their psychiatry posting

Psychiatry undergraduate training has been significantly curtailed by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the use of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, especially via the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia, to impart two core skills in psychiatry, namely diagnostic abilities and empathy. Med...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Tze Ping Pang, Nathisha Thrichelvam, Walton Wider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Education
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1045069/full