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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2023-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Education |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1045069/full |