Introduction: Empathy, which is described as ‘ the ability to understand and share other people’s feelings’, has been recognized in recent years to play a central role for the successful practice of medicine. Hence, developing empathetic skills needs to be the underlying objective during the training of undergraduate medical students as well as in continuous education of health professionals.[1] Drawbacks of present system: However, during the process of medical education, the quality of empathy that is naturally present within the student has been found to decline, since presently the process is ‘left-brain dominated, analytical and evidence-based’.[2,3] While t he goal of competence-based medical education is to ensure that ‘all learners achieve the desired patient-centered outcomes during their training’, all medical curricula including various versions of competence-based medical…