Application of narrative medicine in the clinical teaching of oral mucosal diseases
10.3760/cma.j.cn116021-20230619-01521
- VernacularTitle:叙事医学在口腔黏膜病学临床实习带教中的应用研究
- Author:
Guanhuan DU
1
;
Yiwen DENG
;
Lijun LIU
;
Xuemin SHEN
Author Information
1. 上海交通大学医学院附属第九人民医院口腔黏膜病科，上海交通大学口腔医学院，国家口腔医学中心，国家口腔疾病临床医学研究中心，上海市口腔医学重点实验室，上海市口腔医学研究所，上海 200011
- Keywords:
Narrative medicine;
Oral mucosal diseases;
Internship teaching;
Empathy level
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research
2023;22(12):1792-1796
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the effect of teaching practice under the concept of narrative medicine on improving the empathy level of interns in oral mucosal diseases.Methods:The interns of stomatology in the class of 2018 in School of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, were divided into narrative medicine teaching group (27 interns receiving narrative medicine concepts and methods before and during internship) and traditional teaching group (21 interns received patients directly under the guidance of teachers without the addition of narrative medicine concepts and methods). A questionnaire was used to collect the general information of students, and the Chinese version of Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) (the version for medical students) was used to measure the empathy level of students. After the end of internship, a statistical analysis was performed for the scores of both groups, and a questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the acceptance of internship under the guidance of narrative medicine among the students in the narrative medicine teaching group. GraphPad Prism 9.3.0 was used to perform the t-test and the rank sum test. Results:There was a significant difference in JSPE score between the traditional teaching group and the narrative medicine teaching group (92.26±8.23 vs. 104.20±15.65, t=2.70, P=0.005), and in addition, 88.89% (24/27) of the students in the narrative medicine teaching group were interested in participating in internship under the guidance of narrative medicine. However, there was no significant difference in the score of internship between the narrative medicine teaching group and the traditional teaching group (87.28±2.77 vs. 85.47±4.31, t=1.68, P=0.100). Conclusions:Incorporating the concepts and methods of narrative medicine into clinical teaching of oral mucosal diseases can significantly improve the empathy ability of interns and raise the awareness that empathy is as important as scientific literacy among students.
