Narrative Medicine Collective

The Narrative Medicine Collective at DGSOM seeks to provide a collaborative space for medical students and healthcare professionals to reflect on their collective experiences within healthcare. Narrative medicine is a rising discipline that combines humanities, arts, clinical medicine, and social justice to give voice to diverse perspectives and humanism in medicine through narratives and prose. The ultimate goal is to use narrative medicine as a vessel to promote equitable and patient-centered health care. The goal of the Collective: - serve as a community for individuals in health care who wish to reflect with like-minded peers about varying perspectives in health care (i.e. as providers and/or as patients) - host student-led writing events open to the larger DGSOM community and provide a comfortable space to write, reflect, and share - lead narrative medicine writing workshops to give feedback to members who request to workshop their written pieces - produce a recurring narrative medicine publication that features voices within the DGSOM community.

gyi@mednet.ucla.edu

Signatories: Grace YI, Alexander Fish, and Tira Oskoui

Advisor: Pamela R Cysner