Event

Medical Education Rounds: Teaching toward Attention: the Pedagogies of Narrative Medicine

Thursday, June 9, 2016 16:00to17:30

McIntyre Medical Building Meakins Amphiteatre, 5th Floor, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, QC, H3G 1Y6, CA

Narrative Medicine is a prominent development in the humanities and has influenced many aspects of clinical practice and education in the health professions.

Learning Objectives:

To understand the three movements of narrative medicine
To consider creative work as a mode of awakening curiosity and clinical commitment
To comprehend the practical aspects of teaching narrative skills in a medical school curriculum

Rita Charon, MD, PhD is a general internist and literary scholar at Columbia University who originated the field of narrative medicine. She is founder and Executive Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia and Professor of Medicine at CUMC. She completed her MD at Harvard in 1978 and her Ph.D. in English at Columbia in 1999, concentrating on the works of Henry James. Her research investigates narrative medicine training, reflective practice, and health care team effectiveness and is supported by the NIH, the NEH, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, and several additional private foundations. She lectures and teaches internationally on narrative medicine and is widely published in leading medical and literary journals. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and many distinctions from clinical and literary societies. She is the author of Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (Oxford University Press, 2006) and co-author of Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine, forthcoming in 2016 from Oxford University Press.