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How does narrative medicine impact medical trainees’ learning of professionalism? A qualitative study
- Source :
- BMC Medical Education, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021), BMC Medical Education
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background Narrative medicine (NM) is an approach involving narrative skills and is regarded as a model for medical humanism and effective medical practice. This study aims to explore how NM impacts medical trainees’ learning of professionalism during a clerkship in a Taiwanese clinical setting. Methods A qualitative interview study adopting a purposive sampling method was undertaken. Thirty medical trainees participated in this study, including five fifth-year medical students (MSs), ten sixth-year MSs, nine seventh-year MSs, and six postgraduate year (PGY) trainees. Thematic framework analysis was applied, and a modified realist evaluation approach was further used to analyse the interview data. Results We identified self-exploration, reflection, and awareness of professional identity as mechanisms explaining how NM impacted professionalism learning in our participants. Furthermore, empathy, communication, doctor-patient relationship and understanding patients were identified as the outcomes of the NM intervention for trainees’ learning of professionalism. Conclusions NM facilitates medical trainees’ self-exploration, reflection, and awareness of professional identity, thereby affecting their learning of professionalism in clinical settings. Adopting NM as an educational intervention in undergraduate medical education could play an important role in professionalism learning, as trainees can thereby be supported to gradually develop self-exploration and reflection capabilities and heightened awareness of professional identity reflectively through a narrative process.
- Subjects :
- Students, Medical
020205 medical informatics
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Identity (social science)
Empathy
02 engineering and technology
Education
Nonprobability sampling
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Intervention (counseling)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Humans
Narrative
030212 general & internal medicine
media_common
Narrative medicine
Medical education
education.field_of_study
Physician-Patient Relations
LC8-6691
Research
General Medicine
Special aspects of education
Thematic analysis
Professionalism
Medical trainees
Medicine
Qualitative study
Psychology
Qualitative research
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726920
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28b876e44e759267b770f1fe0b7a8e17