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Reflective writing is one proven method for teaching medical students to interact empathetically with patients. Most such exercises are based on students' reflection on clinical experiences. However, in order to effectively extract, interpret and...

There is now a renewed interest in narrative analysis in the humanities, social sciences and medicine. Disease narratives are of particular interest in health-related settings. This article discusses the background to this interest....

Text analysis theories are applied to understanding medical histories, clinicians and scholars have the opportunity to develop a more nuanced and multi-faceted appreciation of these accounts. A patient's story is rarely 'just a story', but is rather a conscious and unconscious...

The use of narratives, including doctors' and patients' stories, literature and film, is increasingly popular in medical education. However, there is a need for an overarching conceptual framework to guide these efforts, which are often dismissed as...

Researchers and medical educators in the field of doctor-patient communication encourage doctors to elicit patient narratives during medical encounters to facilitate data collection, relationship building and patient satisfaction. However, these scholars convey little ...

Effective medical practice requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to recognise, assimilate, interpret and respond to the stories and fates of others. Medicine practised with narrative competence, known as narrative medicine, is proposed as a model of...

This article proposes the use of written narrative reflection to capture and measure the generic competencies of systems-based practice, practice-based learning, communication skills and professionalism. As part of a pilot study, students...

In this project, the authors use a narrative medicine (NM) approach to assess the promotion of trust in the relationship between doctors and their asthma patients. Doctors who were able to listen to their patients with empathy (35%) were more likely to make shared decisions with...

Despite the in-depth discussion of narrative medicine, there is limited research on narrative competence in the literature; thus, this study aims to explore the dimensions and clinical connotations of narrative competence in medical staff. The study ...

The ability to reflect has been described as an essential feature of professional and competent clinical practice. Reflection has recently been linked to promoting the effective use of feedback in medical education and associated with improved accuracy ...

The shift to patient-centred medical practice is important to ensure appropriate and sustainable healthcare. Narrative medicine suggests that patients should be meaningfully involved in diagnosis and treatment. Thus, to understand the importance of ...

This article explores the use of narrative medicine (NM) in the clinical care of brain cancer patients whose identity and quality of life are compromised by their disease and treatment. The narratives of four brain cancer patients provided examples of...

Narrative medicine can be considered one of the tools to help improve clinician-patient communication. Current medical practice is dominated by evidence-based medicine and dictates what therapies the clinician will offer under the circumstances, preferably...

This thesis aims to review scientific research on narrative medicine. Out of 325 studies conducted, 10 research articles were identified that met the inclusion criteria for this analysis. The review found that research on medicine ...

In this deeply moving memoir, Arthur W. Frank explores the events of illness from the inside: the transformation of person to patient, the pain, the delight and the ceremony of recovery. To explain what illness can teach us about life, Frank refers to his own...