Using patient storytelling to improve medical students' empathy in Japan: a pre-post study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Empathy for patients is now internationally accepted as one of the competencies of physicians for patient-centered medical practice and an essential component of medical education. Recently, "patient storytelling" has attracted attention in empathy education for medical students to understand patients' experiences, feelings, and perspectives. This study aimed to quantitatively evaluate how patient storytelling enhanced undergraduate medical students' empathy in Japan to the extent that they sustained it for six months.

Methods

Participants were 159 fourth-year undergraduate medical students in Tokyo in academic years 2018 and 2019. The questionnaire surveys were conducted three times: at the beginning of the class, immediately after the class, and six months after

SUBMITTER: Kagawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9881337 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature