Clinical Trial: Investigating the Effects of a Short Narratology Education Module on Empathy and Patient-centred Communication in Early-stage Medical Students.
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Empathy
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Investigating the Effects of a Short Narratology Education Module on Empathy and Patient-centred Communication in Early-stage Medical Students: an Empirical Mixed-methods Pilot Study.
Brief Summary:
Effective communication is a fundamental skill in clinical medicine; however, traditional approaches often fail to equip learners with an ability to authentically and empathically engage with the complexities of real patients' experiences.Narratology education has been proposed as a pedagogical framework for augmenting empathy and patient-centred communication in medical students.In April 2025, we undertook a mixed-methods pilot study to evaluate the impact of a one-week narratology education module on…
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