Response to medical students' perspective: project-based learning approach to increase medical student empathy.

Keywords: Empathy; teaching and learning methods; project-based learning EN Empathy teaching and learning methods project-based learning 1 1 1 12/17/21 20211201 NES 211201 I read with great interest, the article by medical students Nathwani and Vedd [[1]], which was written in response to my article entitled 'Project-based learning approach to increase medical student empathy' [[2]], and I much appreciate their comments on the topic of teaching empathy in medical education. I also agree with the points made by the authors that medical student empathy should be assessed as part of the selection process and that student empathy be allowed to mature through early patient interactions and the teaching of communication skills [[1]]. [Extracted from the article]