Where Your Story Meets My Story: Teaching Narrative Medicine

Thursday, October 10, 2024

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM East Coast USA Time

Location: Georgetown (M1 Level)

CMEs: 0.75

Primary Speaker(s)

Kevin T. Wyne, PA-C, MPAS, MSc (he/him/his)

Director of Research and Professional Development
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Slides

Co-Speaker(s)

Abby McGuire, PA-C (she/her/hers)

Clinical Assistant Professor
The University of Wisconsin- Madison

Disclosure(s):

Kevin T. Wyne, PA-C, MPAS, MSc: No financial relationships to disclose

Abby McGuire, PA-C: No financial relationships to disclose

Description: This session will highlight the specific Narrative Medicine activities we have incorporated throughout our curriculum to cultivate reflective practice, and will introduce narrative competence as a concept to nourish healthy patient-provider relationships. We will detail how this approach helps students build habits that enhance professionalism and care effectively for communities.

Learning Objectives:

Describe how narrative frameworks guide patient understanding of illness and disease, and narrative competence as a strategy to nourish health patient-provider relationships
Highlight the benefits of incorporating Narrative Medicine throughout a PA program curriculum
Describe Narrative Medicine techniques to cultivate self-reflection practices in PA students
Detail strategies for assessing Narrative Medicine activities and evaluate skill development