Narrative medicine and humanities for health professions education: an experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Narrative 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.

Methods

A 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; SD = 0.23), with varied majors

SUBMITTER: Liao HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10339765 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature