{
  "id": 1648812,
  "title": "QMJ highlights role of narrative mentorship in shaping future doctors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/qmj-highlights-role-of-narrative-mentorship-in-shaping-future-doctors",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-18T06:04:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Peninsula Qatar",
    "slug": "the-peninsula-qatar",
    "url": "https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/18/08/2026/qmj-highlights-role-of-narrative-mentorship-in-shaping-future-doctors"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}