Stefania Pighin, Vittorio Girotto, Katya Tentori
Children's quantitative Bayesian inferences from natural frequencies and number of chances
Cognition
introduction routine curriculum community medicine includes clinicosocial casetaking focus physical biological psychosocial determinants health opportunity integrate narrative medicine undergraduate postgraduate medical students using storytelling objective current study assess feasibility challenges opportunities methods conducted need assessment crosssectional survey teaching faculty community medicine across india using google forms considering 80 positive response pilot within department relative error 10 20 nonresponse rate sample size 120 questionnaire included closedended questions likert scale dealt affective cognitive communication domains openended questions insights opportunities challenges results former expressed descriptive statistics frequencies proportions openended questions summarized guide refinement implementation results 120 participants 92 77 quoted lowmedium empathy quotient students 107 892 felt listening skills students improve introduction storytelling hundred twelve 934 participants felt historytaking skills improve storytelling agreed language medicine improved one hundred nine 908 felt lead better studentpatient interaction opportunities included better understanding social determinants patientfamilycentered care improved communication skills better mental health key challenges included time motivation need trainingcapacity building streamlining assessment metrics conclusion conclude storytelling may help medical students investigate various social determinants health disease lived environments create vulnerabilities