Part seven: the role of narrative in the everyday practice of medicine developing narrative competence
Vannatta, J.; Schleifer, R.; Crow, S.
Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association 102(10): 328-332
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0030-1876 PMID: 19998735 Document Number: 634178
It has been the thesis of this symposium that medicine is a narrative enterprise. We have presented our case that the work in is largely narrative. If that is true, then one of the goals of medical education should be to create methods of improving the narrative competencies in learners and practitioners of medicine. This final paper will explore the field of Narrative Medicine and briefly discuss methods currently in use in American Medical Education and conclude with the experience at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine over the past ten years.