Intro to Medical Creative Writing, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Students will read other physician writers' works and then begin an extended piece of their own. Patient narratives, narrative competence, and medical humanities are all terms increasingly used when talking about ways to improve physician-patient interactions and satisfaction. In this introductory course, we will explore how and why writing can illuminate medicine and increase a physician's observations, making him/her more aware of the patient's needs. Elective only. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.