Narrative Medicine, Oakland University

Narrative Medicine is a 7 week seminar using arts and humanities to learn skills of close reading, close listening and close looking to enhance clinical skills of medical students. The course also enhances communication, empathy, and connections with patients and colleagues. The course uses poems, prose, short stories, film clips and art along with reflective writing and discussion to delve into our own experiences and how that can effect patient care. Each week emphasis a different skill and builds on the previous week. 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.