ArticleMedical education online2023
Narrative medicine and humanities for health professions education: an experimental study.
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- Integrating digital and narrative medicine in modern healthcare: a systematic review.Medical education online · 2025Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Narrative Medicine and Nurse and Nurse Practitioner Well-Being.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Application of narrative medicine combined with clinical thinking model in neurology teaching.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Power without limits: exploring emotional regulation, moral authority, and psychiatric overreach through theFrontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Beyond the scalpel: humanistic training and professional identity formation in postgraduate plastic surgery education.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- When stories become care: mapping literary exposure to empathy and resilience in medical students and doctors through the lens of narrative medicine.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- From Stories to Science: Mapping Global Trends in Narrative Medicine Research (2004-2024).Cureus · 2025Article
- Effects of a narrative medicine program on empathic ability of dental students: a comparative study.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Relationship between retention intention, perceived organizational support, and medical narrative ability among nurses: a cross-sectional multi-center study.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- The impact of a narrative medicine program on obstetrics and gynecology residents' empathy ability.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Relationship Between Perceived Organizational Support, Work Well-Being, and Medical Narrative Ability Among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
- Narrative medicine in clinical internship teaching practice.Medical education online · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundNarrative medicine can serve as a tool to empathize with human beings' predicament and suffering. The research intended to examine whether the use of narrative medicine to form an empathetic connection could bring any positive impacts on health professions students.
methodsA two-group quasi-experimental design was adopted to examine whether the intervention of narrative medicine to form an empathetic connection could demonstrate differences between the experimental group (35 students) and the control group (32 students) with regard to professional identity, self-reflection, emotional catharsis, and reflective writing competency. These 67 participants were health professions students in a medical university (mean age = 20.02;
resultsThe quantitative results demonstrated that the narrative medicine-based intervention could bring positive effects on the health professions students. After going through the intervention, the students in the experimental group had stronger professional identity, a higher reflective thinking level, more emotional catharsis, and greater improvement in reflective writing competency than those not receiving the intervention, though some subscales not reaching statistical significance.
conclusionThis research results proved that the use of narrative medicine to form an empathetic connection could bring positive impacts on health professions students regarding professional identity, self-reflection, emotional catharsis, and self-reflective writing competency.
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