MDHM510

Explores narrative and interpretive techniques that may enhance communication within the healthcare community as a whole. Narrative is everywhere in medicine: in patient stories, in the notes we write, in our formal presentations and in conversations with colleagues and families. Traditionally, healthcare education has provided little training in how best to create and interpret such narratives. Uses medical fiction, essays, poetry, great literature, illness narratives, medical autobiographies and case write-ups on Narrative Medicine. Includes a combination of lecture and reading and writing workshops. Each semester, the focus of the course shifts within the overall framework of Narrative Medicine, and therefore this course can be repeated multiple times.

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