Narrative medicine can shape our understanding of disease and treatment, normality, and disability as well as our culture's attitude towards these issues. This narrative medicine selective is a one credit extracurricular course using the following components:
- Close readings of various types of fiction (novels, films, short stories, poems) and news media
- Presentation of clinical case studies and practice of patient interviews (narrative medicine history taking)
- Research papers to investigate health and disease
- Exploration of neurolinguistic programming, storytelling, and metaphor
- Reflective essays
- Group discussions