Section: Module 8: Lesson 1: Narrative Medicine: Connecting with Patients | Humanism in Health and Healthcare | NextGenU.org

  • Learning Objectives:
    Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
    • Articulate the way in which narrative can enable a richer understanding of patients and their illness experiences.
    • Describe how a narrative approach to patience care can help connect the patient and the clinician in a relationship.
    • Define 7 key concepts necessary to eliciting a patient's narrative.
    • Describe key questions that are useful for eliciting and elaborating patient narrative in a clinical "conversation."
    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour and 40 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Read the entire article. (13 minutes)

      2017

    • Read the entire article (Content in English only). (17 minutes)

      Canadian Family Physician - 2018

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    • Recommended Additional Readings
    • Read the entire article. (57 minutes)

      Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy - 2021