QMJ highlights role of narrative mentorship in shaping future doctors
<p>Doha, Qatar: Medical education should go beyond technical skills by giving students greater opportunities to hear honest accounts of uncertainty, setbacks and challenges from experienced clinicians, according to a new paper published in the latest issue of the Qatar Medical Journal (QMJ).</p> <p>The paper calls for narrative mentorship to be formally incorporated into simulation-based medical…
A new paper published in the Qatar Medical Journal (QMJ) highlights the importance of narrative mentorship in shaping future doctors, suggesting that medical education should move beyond technical skills to include honest accounts of uncertainty, setbacks, and challenges from experienced clinicians. The paper, titled "Integrating narrative mentorship into simulation-based medical education to support professional identity formation," advocates for the incorporation of clinicians' personal stories into simulation-based medical education, arguing that these stories can help medical students and trainees develop professional identity, resilience, ethical reasoning, and confidence in dealing with uncertainty.
By using personal experiences as a basis for reflective dialogue, narrative mentorship could complement traditional competency-based medical education and address aspects of professional development often overlooked in formal curricula. The authors define narrative mentorship as a reflective mentoring approach where experienced clinicians share personal clinical experiences, including ethical challenges and the process of finding meaning in difficult situations, to model professional values and create opportunities for reflective learning.
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