The Kind Care Bundle: A Curriculum to Teach Medical Students the Behaviors of Kind, Compassionate Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients' hospital experiences can be adversely affected by clinicians' negative behaviors. Simple positive behaviors, however, can have a dramatic impact on patient-clinician relationships. Medical students starting clinical training are ideal educational targets for learning good behavioral habits that promote kind, compassionate care.

Methods

We developed the Kind Care Bundle, a collection of concrete verbal and nonverbal behaviors for showing compassion in patient interactions. The curriculum was taught in 3-hour small-group interactive sessions to first-year students. Students reflected on personal experiences of compassionate care and role-played the use of the Kind Care Bundle. In pairs, students interviewed patients about their experiences of kind, compa

SUBMITTER: Cooper CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8056774 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature