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Learning to listen: mixed-methods study of medical students' perspectives on communication training.

BMC Med Educ · 2026 · PMC13445755 · PMID 42231321

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Empathy is widely regarded as a teachable professional skill, yet evidence consistently shows a worrying trend: medical students’ empathy tends to decline during their education [ 3 ].

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