Empathy & Compassion in Healthcare: Building Human-Centered Care

This interactive session explores the essential role of empathy and compassion in delivering high-quality healthcare. It highlights how understanding patients’ emotions, perspectives, and experiences can enhance communication, strengthen trust, and improve clinical outcomes. Through practical insights and real-life applications, participants will learn how to integrate empathy and compassion into daily healthcare practices and foster a more patient-centered culture.

This event has a mixed medium of instruction in both English and Arabic languages.

By the end of this event you will be able to:

1. To understand the concepts of empathy, compassion, and sympathy and their differences.
2. To recognize the importance of empathy and compassion in improving patient outcomes and satisfaction. 
3. To develop practical skills for applying empathy in healthcare settings.
4. To explore strategies for building an empathetic and compassionate organizational culture.
5. To identify challenges such as compassion fatigue and ways to manage them effectively.