About Narrative Based Medicine
Narrative-based medicine is premised on the understanding that, knowingly and unknowingly, practitioners and patients together construct narratives over the course of their encounters; that these stories – with their multiple characters, conflicts and desires, subtleties and miscommunications – affect the nature and meaning of health events in all our lives; and that getting better at working with stories of all kinds has a powerful impact on both patient care and physician fulfilment.
Our Programs & Workshops
The Mudroom: Guided Creative Workshops for Health Professionals
This monthly workshop offers inspiration and support for health professionals interested in exploring creative and reflective writing.
Digital Certificate Program
An intensive program introduces the theory and practice of narrative-based medicine. It is Canada’s only virtual intensive certificate program in narrative-based clinical practice.
Resilience in Practice
A workshop series that explores personal and professional resiliency through the work (and wisdom) of clinician – writers.
Customized Program
Team Narrative is pleased to collaborate with you to design customized learning experiences that explore narrative-based medicine topics.
Team Narrative
Team Narrative is a collective of educators across clinical and humanities disciplines at the University of Toronto who offer lectures and workshops on the role of working with stories in learning and health-related encounters. These sessions are designed to help improve reflective capacity, narrative competence, visual literacy and critical thinking, while emphasizing learner resilience and self-care.