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Huang CD, Jenq CC, Liao KC, Lii SC, Huang CH, Wang TY. How does narrative medicine impact medical trainees' learning of professionalism? A qualitative study. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2021; 21:391. [PMID: 34289848 PMCID: PMC8296619 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-021-02823-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Narrative medicine (NM) is an approach involving narrative skills and is regarded as a model for medical humanism and effective medical practice. This study aims to explore how NM impacts medical trainees' learning of professionalism during a clerkship in a Taiwanese clinical setting. METHODS A qualitative interview study adopting a purposive sampling method was undertaken. Thirty medical trainees participated in this study, including five fifth-year medical students (MSs), ten sixth-year MSs, nine seventh-year MSs, and six postgraduate year (PGY) trainees. Thematic framework analysis was applied, and a modified realist evaluation approach was further used to analyse the interview data. RESULTS We identified self-exploration, reflection, and awareness of professional identity as mechanisms explaining how NM impacted professionalism learning in our participants. Furthermore, empathy, communication, doctor-patient relationship and understanding patients were identified as the outcomes of the NM intervention for trainees' learning of professionalism. CONCLUSIONS NM facilitates medical trainees' self-exploration, reflection, and awareness of professional identity, thereby affecting their learning of professionalism in clinical settings. Adopting NM as an educational intervention in undergraduate medical education could play an important role in professionalism learning, as trainees can thereby be supported to gradually develop self-exploration and reflection capabilities and heightened awareness of professional identity reflectively through a narrative process.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chien-Da Huang
- Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 199 Tun Hua N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Medical Education, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 199 Tun Hua N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Medical Education, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Nephrology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Chang Gung Medical Education Research Centre, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, 199 Tun Hua N. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Medical Education, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of General Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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Frequency of Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV Testing Among Commercially Insured Patients With International Classification of Disease Tenth Revision Specified Sex Partners. Sex Transm Dis 2021; 47:347-353. [PMID: 32304529 DOI: 10.1097/olq.0000000000001145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND High-risk sexual behaviors (HRSB) are associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and US Preventive Services Task Force recommend routine testing for patients with HRSB. Providers can classify patients with HRSB based on the sex of their sex partners using the International Classification of Disease Tenth Revision. We analyzed STI/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing frequencies among patients with HRSB. METHODS This study used a large US administrative outpatient medical claims data set from 2015 to 2017. Patients aged 15 to 64 years were identified with HRSB using International Classification of Disease Tenth Revision codes. An initial HRSB diagnosis in 2016 served as the index date. We assessed chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV testing by HRSB at the index date, and 4 time intervals of 1 to 6 months, and 7 to 12 months before and after the index date. RESULTS We identified 52,160 patients with HRSB: 90.3% were patients with opposite-sex partners, 7.7% patients with same-sex partners, and 2.1% patients with same- and opposite-sex partners. There were 77.5% and 82.1% of the patients insured 6 months before and after the index, respectively. On the index date, patients with opposite-sex partners tested most for chlamydia (65.3%) and gonorrhea (65.2%), patients with same-sex partners tested most for syphilis (51.5%) and HIV (57.8%). Among insured patients, follow-up STI/HIV testing was 89.5% during 1 to 6 months and 33.1% during 7 to 12 months after the index date. Patients tested on the index date were more likely to have an STI/HIV test within 1 to 6 months after the index date. CONCLUSIONS The STI/HIV testing among patients with HRSB could improve. It is important for patients identified as HRSB to get tested and continue testing patients based on recommendations.
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Datta J, Reid D, Hughes G, Mercer CH, Wayal S, Weatherburn P. Places and people: the perceptions of men who have sex with men concerning STI testing: a qualitative study. Sex Transm Infect 2017; 94:46-50. [PMID: 28778980 PMCID: PMC5800331 DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2016-052983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Revised: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 07/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Objectives To explore the experiences and views of men who have sex with men (MSM) on attending clinical sexual health services and their preferences regarding service characteristics in the context of the disproportionate burden of STIs experienced by this group. The wider study aim was to develop a risk assessment tool for use in sexual health clinics. Methods Qualitative study comprising eight focus group discussions with 61 MSM in four English cities. Topics included: experience of attending sexual health services, perceptions of norms of attendance among MSM, knowledge of, and attitudes towards, STIs and views on ‘being researched.’ Discussions were audio-recorded and transcribed and a thematic data analysis conducted. Results Attending sexual health services for STI testing was described as embarrassing by some and some clinic procedures were thought to compromise confidentiality. Young men seeking STI testing were particularly sensitive to feelings of awkwardness and self-consciousness. Black and ethnic minority men were concerned about being exposed in their communities. The personal qualities of staff were seen as key features of sexual health services. Participants wanted staff to be friendly, professional, discreet, knowledgeable and non-judgemental. Conclusions A range of opinion on the type of STI service men preferred was expressed with some favouring generic sexual and reproductive health clinics and others favouring specialist community-based services. There was consensus on the qualities they would like to see in healthcare staff. The knowledge, conduct and demeanour of staff could exacerbate or ameliorate unease associated with attending for STI testing.
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- Jessica Datta
- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, UK
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- Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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