Abstract
Humanistic clinicians possess scientific and technical competence and demonstrate essential virtues like empathy, compassion, patience, love, and courage. Humanistic clinicians are trained with an emphasis on the sciences and the humanities. The humanistic clinician is therefore better equipped to care for patients, the patient’s family members, other clinicians, and themselves. Defining empathy can be problematic due to a lack of consistent definition. Relevant literature regarding empathy was reviewed before settling on a working definition. Several pedagogical approaches encourage the moral development of clinicians. The methods and purpose of those approaches are explained. Illness narratives or pathography is a particular type of narrative used to help clinicians develop humanistic qualities. The use of pathography in a narrative ethics framework is explored.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, A., & Capers, W. (2025). Developing Humanistic Clinicians: A Review of Literature. The Journal of the Research Association of Minority Professors, 27(1). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/jramp/vol27/iss1/3
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