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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.



P&S Second-Year Seminars

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.

 

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2010

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2009

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2008

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2007

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2006

Narrative Medicine Seminars 2005

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

Narrative Medicine 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 Faculty

Ana Blohm, MD

Columbia University

Mt. Sinai Visiting Doctors Program

Rika Burnham

The Frick Collection

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

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

Jennifer Stevens Madoff Dickson, DrPH

School of Public Health

Program in Narrative Medicine

Columbia University

Jane Fried, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics

NY State Psychiatric Institute


David Hellerstein, MD
Clinical Director
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Nellie Hermann, MFA

Program in Narrative Medicine

Columbia University

Marsha Hurst, Ph.D.

Program in Narrative Medicine

Columbia University

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

Rachel Jacobs, Ph.D.

Behavioral Medicine, Columbia University

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

Carrie McGhee

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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

Polly Wheat, M.D.

Columbia University

Director of Student Health at CUMC

Anna Willieme, MFA

Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

Program in Narrative Medicine
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