(CME113) Narrative as Medicine: Reconstructing our Humanity through Storytelling in PALTC

Session Summary: In this workshop, participants will have the chance to try first-hand some narrative medicine exercises (don’t worry, no writing experience needed!) and to get a taste for the type of interventions possible in the PALTC setting for both staff and residents. Workshop presenters will include a Medical Director who will share usage cases and outcomes from narrative medicine activities used with patients and staff in a continuum of care setting and a Staff-Support Chaplain who will share examples of and data from narrative medicine interventions used with staff across various disciplines in a virtual setting. Our goal is for participants to leave with excitement for the doors that engagement with the arts can open (in terms of both clinician self-awareness and patient communication), and with some practical and feasible ways to implement narrative medicine interventions in their own settings.