Hear from our Curriculum Lead, Creative Lead, and Foundational Certificate alums about what makes the Narrative-Based Medicine Lab community so special.

Posted: Friday November 3, 2023

Ronna Bloom, facilitator of our upcoming Facilitate a Writing Workshop in Your Healthcare Community offering, was featured on The Lift Podcast produced by Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Sitting down with Dr. Mary Elliott, Ronna shares her experience bringing poetry to healthcare workers and speaks about her work with poetry, healthcare professionals, spontaneity, vulnerability, and need. […]

Posted: Wednesday November 1, 2023

Members of the NBM Lab community gathered for a special, in-person celebration on Wednesday, September 27 at the Art Gallery of Ontario for an evening filled with connection and creativity. The evening began with reflections from Patricia Houston, Vice Dean, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, on the evolution of Narrative-Based Medicine programming in Continuing […]

Posted: Saturday September 30, 2023

“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

Allan Peterkin is the recipient of the 2023 Health Humanities Consortium Visionary Award. He was recognized for his leadership in the field of health humanities, far-reaching contributions both nationally and globally, and mentorship to health professionals. Nominators noted that his “career has been one of global achievement and accomplishment, all with great heart and light.” […]

Posted: Wednesday February 15, 2023