Narrative Medicine, Storytelling, and Preparing for Residency
This course covers narrative medicine, storytelling, and personal reflection. It uses medical humanities for personal statement writing, interview preparation, and professional identity formation.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Define narrative medicine and storytelling and how they can impact healthcare.
Apply the skills of close reading, attentive listening, creative writing, and storytelling to develop your narrative competence.
Reflect upon the experiences that have defined your development into a physician and apply this reflection to your residency personal statement and interview preparation.
Apply the tools learned from this course to stay grounded in your purpose in medicine as you move on to the next stage in your training.
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Narrative medicine, developing narrative competence, storytelling, and personal reflection. Using medical humanities for personal statement writing, interview preparation and professional identity formation.
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Topics
- Narrative medicine and storytelling
- Medical humanities applied to residency preparation
- Impact of narrative medicine on healthcare
Skills
- Developing narrative competence through storytelling and personal reflection.
- Applying medical humanities to personal statement writing, interview preparation, and professional identity formation.
- Close reading, attentive listening, creative writing, and storytelling.
- Reflecting on physician development and applying it to residency applications.
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