“Here’s a poem. It might speak to what you’re experiencing now that hasn’t been articulated yet,” said Ronna Bloom as she prescribed poems to patients and staff in the halls of Mount Sinai Hospital. Poetry has gradually claimed a place in today’s patient-centered medicine. Ronna, a trained psychotherapist and the first Poet-in-Residence at Mount Sinai […]

Posted: Thursday September 21, 2023

Welcome to the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab (NBM Lab) at Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine — Canada’s home for teaching, research, and innovation in Narrative-Based Medicine. The NBM Lab is a place to build community and to foster international collaboration and knowledge exchange across clinical and artistic disciplines. The last couple of years have […]

Posted: Thursday September 21, 2023

Welcome to the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab (NBM Lab) at Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine — Canada’s home for teaching, research, and innovation in Narrative-Based Medicine. The NBM Lab is a place to build community and to foster international collaboration and knowledge exchange across clinical and artistic disciplines. As human beings, we are wired […]

Posted: Monday July 17, 2023

Our Narrative-Based Medicine offerings this season span resilience, creative and reflective writing, workshop facilitation, and more.

Posted: Monday June 5, 2023

Posted: Monday May 29, 2023

Paula Holmes-Rodman, anthropologist and alum of our Foundational Certificate, reflects on her mother’s passing in this creative non-fiction piece published in Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine.

Posted: Monday May 1, 2023

Carrie Bernard, Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and Foundational Certificate alum, reflects on caring for patients in the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic in this creative piece published in the CMAJ on National Physicians’ Day.

Posted: Monday May 1, 2023