ArticleMedical education online2019
Development of an empathy and clarity rating scale to measure the effect of medical improv on end-of-first-year OCSE performance: a pilot study.
Article in Medical education online, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Integrating digital and narrative medicine in modern healthcare: a systematic review.Medical education online · 2025Pooled it
- Zoom Improv is accessible and enhances medical student empathy.BMC medical education · 2024Trial
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- The digital transformation of clinical teaching: a review of AI and data-driven quality assurance systems in medical education.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- The use of applied improvisation at university: a mini-review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Applied improvisation and transdisciplinary simulation: a necessity for any health curriculum?Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- The impact of a medical improv curriculum on wellbeing and professional development among pre-clinical medical students.Medical education online · 2021Article
- The utility of a formative one-station objective structured clinical examination for Substance use disorders in a dental curriculum.European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe · 2021Article
- Is the Empathy and Clarity Rating Scale a way to assess empathy in realistic clinical encounters?Medical education online · 2019Article
- The science of talk in clinical science: using a conversation analytic approach as a foundation for communication skills training.MedEdPublish (2016) · 2019Article
- Improvisation as a Teaching Tool for Improving Oral Communication Skills in Premedical and Pre-Biomedical Graduate Students.Journal of medical education and curricular developmentArticle
- Role of Medical Improvs in Facilitating Learning and Acquisition of Skills among Healthcare Professionals.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Patients want empathetic physicians who listen and understand. How do you teach and measure empathy? Medical educators, including those inspired by Alan Alda, have turned to theater to teach skills in empathetic communication. Improvisation-informedcurriculum (medical improv) draws upon foundational actors training: deep listening, emotional understanding, connections, authenticity. Arating scale to measure the impact of medical improv on empathetic and clear communication does not exist.
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