Teaching Empathy to Medical Students

Teaching Empathy to Medical Students is a cheeky, and surprisingly insightful resource that invites educators to meet nine wonderfully real student profiles who often fly under the radar of conventional empathy training. Move over, “golden child”, “model citizen” or elite-minded over-achiever, it’s time to make room for more!

This guide doesn’t just describe them—it gives you practical, thoughtful strategies for supporting each one with curiosity, compassion, and yes, empathy. Equal parts humor and heart, this resource helps educators cut through the clinical to connect on a human level, where real growth begins. Because empathy isn’t just something we teach—it’s something we practice, for each and every student.

Includes the following profiles:

1. Wounded Student

2. Drowning Student

3. Objectified Student

4. Boundary-less Student

5. Exploited Student

6. Mature Student

7. Never-Enough Student

8. Lower-Power-Patient Student

9. Fake-It-Til-U-Make-It Student

Ideal For:

• Medical school faculty and instructors
• Clinical educators and mentors
• Healthcare and science professionals involved in teaching and training

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