Narrative Medicine and Podcasting with The Nocturnists, University of California, San Francisco

Physicians, privy to an amazing variety of vulnerable experiences shared by humanity, have always been natural storytellers. Organized by The Nocturnists, this elective will introduce medical students to new media and communication, including podcasting, as well as live storytelling events. Students will learn the craft of podcasting, and will leave the elective with a strong mental framework for using podcasts and other narrative-centric media tools to communicate crucial stories in medicine. Though UCSF offers few courses that explicitly engage with literature to train medical skills or augment clinician wellbeing, there are Faculty who engage with the medical humanities in their research and independent work. The Nocturnists, an award-winning podcast created and hosted by Emily Silverman MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF), is a good example of this. 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.