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Medical Students’ Voices: Reflections on Mindfulness During Clinical Encounters

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In this chapter, medical students describe clinical experiences from clerkship and comment on some of the mindful and less-mindful elements of these clinical encounters. These self-reflective narrative exercises, when shared with the reader, provide further opportunities for teaching and learning.

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Smilovitch, M. (2015). Medical Students’ Voices: Reflections on Mindfulness During Clinical Encounters. In: Dobkin, P. (eds) Mindful Medical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15777-1_24

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