"Narration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The act, process, or an instance of narrating, i.e., telling a story. In the context of MEDICINE or ETHICS, narration includes relating the particular and the personal in the life story of an individual.
| Descriptor ID |
D033262
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.502 F01.145.209.459 L01.399.250.660 N05.715.360.300.480 N06.850.520.308.502
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Narration" by people in Profiles.
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Practical Wisdom Through Narratives as Told by Medical Students and Physicians. South Med J. 2026 May 04; 119(5):242-251.
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SIMPL Study of Surgical Feedback: Faculty Identity Outweighs Trainee Factors in Narrative Assessments. J Surg Educ. 2026 Jun; 83(6):103951.
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Language Differences by Race in the Narrative Section of the Emergency Medicine Standardized Letter of Evaluation. West J Emerg Med. 2025 Nov 19; 26(6):1519-1525.
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Case to Vignette: A Framework to Elevate Narrative by Embracing Vignette-Based Learning in Medicine. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 09; 40(13):3223-3227.
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What/Why/When/Where/How Framework and Faculty Development Workshop to Improve the Utility of Narrative Evaluations for Assessing Internal Medicine Residents. MedEdPORTAL. 2024; 20:11420.
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Exploring the application of machine learning to expert evaluation of research impact. PLoS One. 2023; 18(8):e0288469.
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Psychosocial resources underlying disaster survivors' posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories: insight from in-depth interviews with mothers who survived Hurricane Katrina. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2023; 14(2):2211355.
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Indicators of Criminal Justification or Repentance in a Qualitative Analysis of Inmates Autobiographical Criminal Self-Narratives. J Interpers Violence. 2022 02; 37(3-4):NP1811-NP1834.
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Two Cases of Pregnancy Following Uterine Transplant: An Ethical Analysis. Narrat Inq Bioeth. 2020; 10(3):263-268.
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Too Early for a Narrative Review? Anesth Analg. 2019 08; 129(2):333-334.