The Program in Narrative Medicine - College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Mission Statement:
Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists to improve the effectiveness of care by developing the capacity for attention, reflection, representation, and affiliation with patients and colleagues. Our research and outreach missions are conceptualizing, evaluating, and spear-heading these ideas and practices nationally and internationally.

All second-year medical students at Columbia are required to complete an intensive ½ semester seminar in humanities. Each year, all second-year medical students select among the 12-14 concurrent humanities seminars offered. Typically, the catalogue includes seminars in literary studies, narrative writing, history of medicine, ethics, visual arts, religious studies, and alternative medicine.

2008

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2008-Narrative Medicine Seminars 2008

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2008 Enrollment with Locations

The following link contains the Excel sheet with the students choices in the Narrative Medicine Seminar in alphabetical order:

2nd year students Enrollment NM Seminar 2008

2007

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2007-NARRATIVE MEDICINE SEMINARS 2007

2006

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2006-Narrative Medicine Seminars 2006

2005

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2005-Narrative Medicine Seminars 2005

2004

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2004

S1 The Philosophy of Death
S2 Faith in the Practice of Medicine
S3 Reading the Body, Writing the Body: Women’s Illness Narratives
S4 The City of the Hospital: The Medical Student as Writer
S5 Fiction Workshop
S6 Life Drawing for Medical Students
S7 Drawing from Classical Greek Sculpture
S8 Black-and-White Photography: Introduction to Composition and Printing
S9 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
S10 Physician Activism
S11 Acupuncture: History, Philosophy, Theory, and Practice

2003

Narrative Meidicine Seminars 2003

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

Present and Past Faculty and Staff

Morgan Beatty, MFA
School for the Arts
Columbia University

Bertie Bregman, MD
Center for Family Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D
Division of General Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Sayantani DasGupta, M.D., M.P.H.
Fellow, Department of Pediatrics

Jeffrey Encke, Ph.D.
Department of English
Columbia University

Jane Fried, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics

David Hellerstein, MD
Clinical Director
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Craig Irvine, Ph.D.
Program in Family Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Barbara Kerstetter
Painter

Sarah Klenbort
M.F.A. Program
Columbia University

Edith J Langner MD,
Faculty Director, Arts in Medicine Project
Program in Narrative Medicine

Marina Malakshanova, M.D.
Internist, Acupuncturist

Daniel W. Morrissey, O.P., S.T.Lr, Ph.Lic., M.S.
Office of the Dean of Students
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Alan Ross, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Janice Ranieri

Program Coordinator

Narrative Medicine

College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Allison Ryan, M.F.A.
Columbia University

Robert E. Sember, PhD
Division of Sociomedical Sciences, CSPH

Vincent M. B. Silenzio, MPH, MD
Center for Family Medicine
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Maura Spiegel, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of English
Columbia University

John Truman, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Associate Chairman of Pediatrics
College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia University

Christine Wade
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Program in Narrative Medicine
630 West 168th Street PH 9-East Room 105 New York, NY 10032
Tel: 212.305.4975 Fax: 212.305.9349

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