It is recently recognized worldwide that the quality of empathy is crucial for the successful delivery of health care [1]. Empathy is a natural quality present in every medical student that needs to be fostered along with academics. It is known that students in the final year no longer feel as empathetic as they were when they joined the first year of medical course [2][3].
The cause for the decline in empathy lies in the structure of modern medicine that is based on the laws of physical sciences requiring the use of predominantly logical thinking and action. Since subjectivity has to be excluded to learn objectively there is little room for development of subjective feeling leading to a neglect of intuition and empathy. Because of the tendency for decline of empathy during the course of medical education, several methods have been suggested to improve empathy among students and…
