Clinical Trial: 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.

U.S., July 25 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07084077) titled '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.' on July 17.

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-method...