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Beyond Sentiment: Cultivating Empathy as a Moral Competence in Healthcare
1Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL), Palhoça, Brazil.
Rationale:
Empathy is widely invoked in healthcare education yet remains conceptually vague and frequently reduced to communication skills.
Aims And Objectives:
This paper aims to reconceptualize empathy as a moral competence and to propose an integrative model for its cultivation in professional formation.
Method:
Conceptual and normative analysis drawing from virtue ethics, phenomenology and medical humanities.
Results:
Empathy is clarified as a mode of moral perception requiring disciplined listening, literary engagement and ethical reflection.
Conclusion:
Empathy formation requires structured practices that integrate humanistic and ethical dimensions beyond procedural training.
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