Abstract: Objective To evaluate the medical narrative ability, humanistic care quality and empathy ability of clinical medical graduates from 6 medical colleges and universities in Hebei Province (including medical colleges/departments of comprehensive universities, hereinafter referred to as medical colleges), and to explore the influencing factors of medical narrative ability of clinical medical students. 
Methods The clinical medical graduates of 6 medical colleges in Hebei Province were investigated by Questionnaire Star platform with convenient sampling method. The medical narrative ability, empathy ability and humanistic care quality of the survey subjects were evaluated using the Chinese physician Narrative Behavior Ability Scale, the Chinese version of Jefferson Empathy Ability Scale and Humanistic Care Quality Scale. 
Results The scores of medical narrative ability,humanistic care quality and empathy ability were (88.84±14.57) points, (119.27±14.87) points, and (57.02±8.22) points, respectively. The main factors affecting the medical narrative ability of clinical medical students were gender, frequency of holding narrative medicine related conferences or training projects, humanistic care concept and humanistic care perception (P＜0.05). 
Conclusion The medical narrative ability of clinical medical students is above the average level, which, however, needs to be improved. The humanistic care quality is good, while empathy ability is poor. It is suggested to set up narrative medicine courses to strengthen the training of narrative ability, strengthen the training of teachers to improve the medical narrative level of teachers, pay attention to the humanistic construction of schools and hospitals, strengthen the professional responsibility of medical students and improve the medical narrative ability of clinical medical students. 

Key words: narrative medicine, humanistic care quality, empathy ability