Matheson, DavidFoss, Alex2020-11-262020-11-262020-11-30Matheson, D. and Foss, A. (2020) The need for narrative in clinical education, Journal of Health and Social Care Improvement, 3(3), pp. 23-31.1756-6657http://hdl.handle.net/2436/623795This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by the University of Wolverhampton in Journal of Health and Social Care Improvement in November 2020: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/faculty-of-health-education-and-wellbeing/pdf/nov-2020-v9-journal-opt.pdf The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.This article aims to discuss the need for clinical education to embrace the use of narrative. It discusses the split – most evident in Anglophone countries – between the arts and the sciences, before discussing what can and cannot be known from the scientific method, and what can and cannot be known from narrative approaches. It concludes that narrative is the natural way to teach and learn and has the advantage that it can explore hypothetical situations in safety as well as both to learn and to convey values and attitudes while the hypothetico-deductive method can say what does happen but can shed no light on what should happen.application/pdfenclinical educationnarrativemedical educationJournal articleJournal of Health and Social Care Improvement2020-11-24