Oxford Empathy Programme
The Oxford Empathy Programme (OxEmCare) is an interdisciplinary research group that includes medical practitioners, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists.
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Aims
Promote the importance of empathy in clinical practice.
This includes empathetic relationships between patients (and their families) and healthcare practitioners, as well as empathetic relationships between healthcare systems and patients/practitioners.
Objectives
- To develop and maintain a glossary of empathy (and related terms) definitions.
- To maintain a database of key measures of empathy.
- To identify and reduce contextual obstacles to empathy.
- Explore the relationship between evidence-based healthcare and empathetic healthcare.
- To develop empathy training for healthcare practitioners and healthcare managers.
- To develop a research program.
- To identify obstacles and facilitators to empathy.
- Explore the relevance of empathy to professional burnout and stress.
- To investigate whether the current model of revalidation is empathetic.
- To investigate how can empathetic care improve value-based healthcare.
- Does emerging digital technology enhance empathetic communication? If so, how?
Our team
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Jeremy Howick
Senior Researcher & Director, Oxford Empathy Programme
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Charlotte Albury
DPhil Student
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Hajira Dambha-Miller
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow
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Muir Gray
Honorary Clinical Researcher
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Sian Rees
Clinical Research Associate
Contact us:
Contact Jeremy Howick for more details or to join the group.
Supported by:
Oxford Empathy Programme International Colloquium
Tuesday 24 October 2017, 10am - 4.30pm
Hosted by the Oxford Empathy Programme
The Oxford Empathy Programme's annual colloquium brings together researchers, patients, clinicians and philosophers to discuss the culture of empathy in clinical practice and how this might improve patient, practitioner, and staff well being. This year we aim to explore what kind of empathy is beneficial to patients and practitioners, given recent suggestions that empathy may be harmful to patients or impossible to enact. There will also be an opportunity to network and present research posters to an international research community.
We are now welcoming abstracts for posters and verbal presentations
Sign-upEvents
Official Launch of the Oxford Empathy Programme
25 October 18:00, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
2016 Inaugural National Empathy Colloquium
25/26 October Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.
The aim of this event is to start a discussion about how promoting a culture of empathy might improve patient, practitioner, and staff health and well being. We will publish a report of what happened at the event in November 2016.
Oxford Empathy Programme International Colloquium
24 October 2017, St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Further information
News
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Funding boost for empathy research
A new research project on practitioner empathy is to be made possible thanks to a grant from the British Medical Association foundation for medical research.
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Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine
Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy.
