This article first analyzes the problems existing in the current professional ethics education of medical students

and then through combing the current status of narrative medicine research at home and abroad

we discuss the importance of narrative medicine in promoting professional ethics education of medical students in China from three aspects: improving doctor-patient communication ability

inspiring medical students' sense of social responsibility

and enriching the current vocational education models for medical students. It also proposes to integrate narrative medicine into medical students' professional ethics education from the three stages of basic course learning stage

social practice stage and clinical practice stage

in order to improve the current status of medical students' professional ethics education and improve the cultivation of medical students' professional spirit.