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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. |
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Doctors, nurses, and social workers on the oncology unit of Presbyterian Hospital gather bimonthly to read to one another what they have written about their day-to-day clinical experiences in a project funded by the Kennth B. Schwartz Center in Boston, MA. After the pilot year, the participants are deeply commited to this collaborative practice of reflection, and its investigators are seeking funding to mount a major clinical outcomes research project to study its consequences. Project participants will pilot teaching methods with this group.
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