Mentored Advanced Project (MAP)

The Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) offers participants the opportunity to explore a topic of interest to them by completing a longer project in NBM under the supervision of a faculty member. It may be creative, reflective, curriculum-based, or scholarly.

MAPs can be done in any of the following areas of focus:

• Narrative Strategies in Clinical Practice and Teaching

  Learners will build skills that can be used for day to day clinical practice, such as eliciting and responding to stories from patients and families, counseling techniques from narrative therapy, the use of therapeutic writing, bibliotherapy, and poetry prescriptions, and narrative-based supervision groups.

• Writing for Healthcare Providers

  Narrative-Based Medicine begins, of course, with narrative – a way of knowing based on literary practice and attention. Whether interested in fiction, memoir, poetry, essays, drama, or some new form, learners will engage in intensive practical classes and workshops where they can share their work and take it further collaboratively and with expert guidance.

• Storytelling through the Arts and Humanities

  A variety of forms and modalities, such as movement and presence, visual arts, photography, theatre, and music will be explored in a series of exciting workshops. Gallery visits, improvisation sessions, mindfulness practice, and other immersive, practical, hands-on experiences offer a unique approach to narrative-based medicine and the opportunity to radically re-imagine healthcare practice through new ways of attending, reflecting, and creating.

• Ethics, Equity, and Inquiry in NBM

  Expand your understanding of ethical issues in NBM, and learn narrative strategies to promote equity in healthcare, and narrative approaches to inquiry. Topics may include: narrative bioethics, narrative advocacy, and narrative in qualitative research.