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October 28, 2003

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Narrative Medicine...

NextGen Medicine? Councelor Troi says, 'Yes!'I heard a very interesting report on NPR today about a burgeoning trend within some medical schools — one in fairly accredited school particular — called, “Narrative Medicine.” Narrative Medicine is a program that concentrates on improving the facilities of non-medical communication between people in the medical profession; its goal is to teach doctors how to break through the “walls” of their “educated ambivalence” and actually begin to “feel” like their patients and for their patients.

Check out the included courses:

S1 The Philosophy of Death
S2 Faith in the Practice of Medicine
S3 Anatomy Lessons: Poetry of the Body
S4 Reading the Body, Writing the Body: Women’s Illness Narratives
S5 Love and Knowledge in the Clinical Narrative
S6 The City of the Hospital: The Medical Student as Writer
S7 Fiction Workshop
S8 Life Drawing for Medical Students
S9 Drawing from Classical Greek Sculpture
S10 Black-and-White Photography: Introduction to Composition and Printing
S11 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
S12 Acupuncture: History, Philosophy, Theory, and Practice
Who knows? Maybe we will soon have doctors who are more like empaths (see picture above). Maybe we can look forward to doctors who will treat us as people rather than patients.

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Comments (2):
yes, thanks for the post. I had the opportunity to study under Martha Montello, a pioneer in the field of Narritive Ethics who splits her academic year between U of Kansas School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School. Her favorite class I took (an elective, a “boutique” class of 12 students) was Narrative Ethics. Amazing, life changing, career-altering stuff. It was some of the best, if not the best, information I learned throught my entire medical school training, very applicable. Thanks for the post Tim! Kudos,

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p.e.horner () (URL) - October 29, 2003 at 12:31 pm

I have been attending Narrative Medicine Rounds at Columbia as an educated member of the public (and a writer and humanist). The presenters have been highly stimulating. Now I’d very much like to have access to courses like those mentioned by Tim Samoff. Are there any such courses open to nonmatriculants or auditors in Manhattan? Any suggestions?

Thanks for anything you can tell me.

Judy Adams () - April 08, 2004 at 08:04 am

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