Interventional radiology knowledge among family medicine residents in Türkiye: a national cross-sectional survey.

Medical education is a challenging and demanding process that requires sustained effort over many years, involves continuous renewal, and aims to equip learners with knowledge and skills relevant to the healthcare field. Given the variability inherent in the educational process, the development of appropriate and effective educational models is of great importance to ensure that acquired knowledge can be applied in practice [, ]. For this reason, educators in medicine and other health disciplines have increasingly sought innovative methods to make the learning process more active, interactive, and meaningful []. In recent years, innovative approaches such as story- and narrative-based methods have gained increasing attention in education, to enhance knowledge retention and student motivation [, –]. In this context, storytelling (narrative-based pedagogy) has emerged as a prominent method. Stories may facilitate learning by engaging learners both cognitively and emotionally []. In addition, emotionally salient information has been shown to be encoded and retained more effectively than neutral information []. In medicine, the “narrative medicine” approach contributes to the development of empathy, observation, and reflective skills between students and patients, not only in clinical practice but also in educational settings [, ]. This approach has been reported to help students connect patients’ experiences with medical knowledge and to support reflective and patient-centered learning []. Similarly, a review focusing on pediatric medical education demonstrated that narrative-based interventions positively contribute to students’ patient care and communication skills [].