Research shows that clinical learners exhibit a decline in empathy after they begin interacting with patients which poses a threat to their ability to provide patient-centered care. Patient-centered care challenges doctors to be empathetic, respectful, and compassionate, even during difficult patient interactions or when they have moral objections to the patient’s health behaviors.
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the professional responsibilities of health-care providers caring for people seeking abortion
- Recognize and appreciate appropriate and inappropriate applications of “conscience” in the setting of abortion care
- Practice patient communication skills
- Identify steps to take to enhance professionalism in personally challenging clinical encounter