Leighton Schreyer receives prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to continue work in narrative medicine.
Posted: Thursday March 28, 2024
Category: News
The WCC team shares the methodology that informed a series of writing workshops for patients at a Toronto-area hospital and insights gained from this model of writing in the community.
Posted: Wednesday March 13, 2024
Learners explored new avenues for scholarly undertaking in the health, arts, and humanities during the Arts-Based Research and Practice Mini-Retreat and Workshop. Health humanities and arts-based approaches offer a wide variety of ways to create and impactfully mobilize new knowledge and understanding. The Arts-Based Research and Practice Workshop that took place this past fall offered […]
Posted: Friday March 8, 2024
Mireille Norris, Medical Education Black Health Theme Lead, shares recommendations for art, music, dance, and food we can experience this Black History Month around Toronto and at home.
Posted: Tuesday February 6, 2024
Healthcare practitioners are often taught to approach and manage their patients’ bodies at the expense of their own. Becoming sick oneself, or seeing a family member fall ill, can be a traumatizing and bewildering experience. How can we remember to tend to our own bodies as healthcare practitioners? How can narrative help us remember — […]
Posted: Friday January 26, 2024
Miriam Colleran, Foundational Certificate alum and palliative care physician in Ireland, joined Karen Gold and Damian Tarnopolsky for a special in person conversation while she was in Toronto this fall. She shares her introduction to narrative-based medicine and discusses how engaging with narrative methods has changed her practice. Enjoy the conversation:
Posted: Thursday December 14, 2023
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