Narrative Medicine: The Art of Facilitation

Date: 18 October, Saturday | Time: 16:00 - 17:30 | Venue: Academia Room, L1-S4

Speakers:  Dr Nicola Ngiam, Dr Mok Yee Hui, Dr Ann Toh & Dr Neeta Satku

Programme Description: 
Narrative medicine is clinical practice anchored in listening to patient stories in order to gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of the patient's illness experience. This workshop will enable participants to develop skills necessary to facilitate a narrative medicine session and consider incorporating it into their clinical or teaching practices.

Programme Details: 
Narrative competence is the ability to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by stories of illness (Charon, 2001). This experiential and immersive workshop aims to build on the experience from the workshop last year and is targeted at participants who would be interested in facilitating their own narrative medicine sessions.

Learning outcomes:

1. Develop an appreciation of the facets of a narrative medicine session
2. Discuss selection of objects and construction of writing prompt
3. Learn skills of facilitation, attentive listening and creating a safe environment
4. Learn about and consider incorporating narrative medicine into teaching or clinical practice

Measurement of outcomes could be through tracking of implementation of narrative medicine sessions in institutions as well as qualitative feedback and interviews with participants.

Target audience:
Prior experience with attending narrative medicine sessions is required for full benefit from this workshop. Participants without experience can expect to experience the practice of facilitation skills by the participants.

Maximum number of participants:
30

References:
Charon R. Narrative Medicine: A Model for Empathy, Reflection, Profession, and Trust. JAMA. 2001;286(15):1897–1902.