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The fundamental role of storytelling and practical wisdom in facilitating the ethics education of junior doctors
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Practical wisdom is a key concept in the field of virtue ethics, and it has played a significant role in the thinking of those who make use of virtue when theorising medical practice and ethics. In this article, we examine how storytelling and practical wisdom play integral roles in the medical ethics education of junior doctors. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted 46 interviews with a cohort of junior doctors to explore the role doctors feel phronesis has in their medical ethics practice and how they acquire practical wisdom through storytelling as an essential part of their medical ethics education. Through thematic analysis of the interviews, we discuss the key role storytelling about moral exemplars and role models plays in developing medical ethics education, and how telling stories about role models is considered to be one of the most useful ways to learn medical ethics. We finish by developing an argument for why practical wisdom should be an important part of medical ethics training, focusing on the important role that phronesis narratives should have in teaching medical ethics.
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- Authors
- Paton, A., & Kotzee, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Birmingham (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Paton, Alexis
- Venue
- Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-11-18
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 417-433
- ISSN
- 1363-4593 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7196
- PMC
- PMC8276332
- OpenAlex
- W2990767755
- Cited by
- 26
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 1.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Aston Publications Explorer (Aston University) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (AH/M006646/1)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Medical Education
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Ethics in medical practice
- Keywords
- storytelling, practical wisdom, medical ethics education, medical residents, virtue ethics, moral exemplars, role models
- MeSH terms
- Ethics, Medical, Humans, Morals, Physicians, Virtues, Narration
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