Funded PhD in Empathic Healthcare (the only one in the world!)

 Artificial Empathy

Qualification: PhD



Department: School of Healthcare

Application deadline: 7 April 2024

Start date: 23 September 2024

Overview (referenced - see main)

Supervisors

Professor Jeremy Howick (jh815 AT leicester.ac.uk)
Dr Josie Solomon
Dr Amber Bennett-Weston

 
Project description

Empathic healthcare improves patient quality of life and satisfaction with their care while reducing their pain.1,2 Higher levels of practitioner empathy are also associated with lower mortality among diabetic patients.3 Empathy can also reduce practitioner burnout.4,5 Despite its importance, the extent to which patients report that their practitioners are empathic varies widely,6 and medical student empathy appears to decline throughout medical school.7 To address this problem, the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare are developing and implementing a revolutionary evidence-based empathy curriculum to the Leicester Medical School, and also to healthcare professionals in the NHS and beyond.

Aims

To develop, deliver, and evaluate research-based educational empathy interventions to medical students and healthcare professionals. 

[NB: While hosted in a medical school, this is not a medical education project per se. The PhD candidates will focus on the research to underpin an evidence-based curriculum.]

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