Meditation buffers medical student compassion from the deleterious effects of depression.
Jennifer S Mascaro, Sean Kelley, Alana Darcher et al.
Increasing data suggest that for medical school students the stress of academic and psychologicaldemands can impair social emotions that are a core aspect of compassion and ultimately physiciancompetence. Few interventions have proven successful for enhancing physician compassion inways that persist in the face of suffering and that enable sustained caretaker well-being. To addressthis issue,...