A new episode of the podcast “Tangible med education” about humanity and empathy in healthcare

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Medical professionals must develop so-called “soft skills” in addition to hard skills. This is necessary to provide quality medical care and communicate effectively with patients.

In the 11th episode of the podcast “Tangible med education,” Mychailo Wynnyckyj, sociologist, trainer, and lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, talks with Oksana Petrynych, lecturer at Bukovinian State Medical University, researcher and co-author of the manual “Humanity and Empathy in Healthcare”: https://bit.ly/3WDKLgV about student-orientedness, Kant’s categorical imperative as the philosophical basis of humanity, as well as the development of compassion, empathy and empathy skills:

• Grandfather’s dream: how Oksana Petrynych got to the medical university and what her studies were like
• Student-centered and partnership relations with male and female students
• The chain of humanity: what is meant by the concept of “humanity” when they talk about humane medical workers
• Measuring the level of empathy among male and female students of medical universities
• Improvement of moral and ethical spirit in medical universities

At the end of the episode, in the section “MZS,” aka evidence-based medicine, Dmytro Huliaiev, head of publishing, research, and education projects at the NGO “Ukrainian Anti-Stroke Association” shares a story about the misconceptions of a brilliant scientist and his obsession with spreading them. We are sure you will be interested to know how Nobel laureate Linus Pauling became an obscurantist.

The podcast “Tangible med education” was created by the Ukrainian-Swiss project “Medical Education Development” team in cooperation with The Ukrainians podcast studio.