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Master of Science in Narrative Medicine Columbia University will launch a new Master of Science in Narrative Medicine in fall of 2009. Narrative medicine is an emerging clinical discipline that fortifies the practice of doctors, nurses, social workers, therapists, and other caregivers with the knowledge of how to interpret and respond to their patients' stories. “At a time when all news about health care is discouraging," says Dr. Rita Charon, who directs the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia and will be teaching in the new masters program, “this exciting event should give heart to sick people and those who care for them that patients can be heard, clinicians nourished, and deep health reached.” Proud to be the first degree program of its kind, this important educational advance improves the quality of patient care and contributes to the healing of our ailing health care system itself. Click here to read the official program announcement and go to www.ce.columbia.edu/ narrativemedicine to learn more about program of study, courses, faculty, and admissions. For further information, contact Program Director Marsha Hurst at mh812@columbia.edu or call Continuing Education 212-854-9699. |
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Applications invited for NIH/Narrative Medicine Summer Research Fellowship The Summer Research Fellowships in Narrative Medicine are awarded for research in topics related to narrative medicine and social medicine. Stipends of $3,500 are provided through the NIH K07 Award on social science and behavioral science in medicine in partnership with the Program in Narrative Medicine. Students are invited to submit proposals for 10-week projects centered on issues of narrative medicine and related areas, and if selected, will be expected to carry out the research under the oversight of a mentor. The research should have the potential to be ongoing, as these stipends will provide the opportunity of continued mentorship and research beyond the scope of the summer—as such, projects are limited to work accomplished at Columbia or in other areas of New York City. A final report is due at the conclusion of the ten weeks. The NIH/Narrative Medicine Summer Research Fellowships are jointly funded by the NIH K07 award “Human Behavior and Experience in Health and Illness” and the Program in Narrative Medicine. The K award has supported intensive curricular and faculty development for the Clinical Practice Course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. For more information, click here. |
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Narrative Medicine Rounds, first Wednesday of each month from September to June at 5-7:00 pm in Faculty Club of CUMC. 446 P&S Building 630 West 168th Street (between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue) New York, NY 10032. PLEASE NOTE!: Starting in January NM Rounds will be held in Alumni Auditorium, 650 W. 168 Street, New York, NY 10032. This will be true for all months EXCEPT for February and May, when Rounds will be held in the Faculty Club.
December 2, 2009
From Male Pregnancy to Medical Nanotechnology: Art, Medicine, and the Human Body in Cyberspace Artist and filmmaker Wong’s work grapples with bioethically vexed medical technologies – including nanorobots, a smart-as-human genetically engineered mouse, and a male pregnancy program. His fictional “RYT-Dwayne Medical Center” (www.rythospital.com) had been called “disarmingly authentic” by the New York Times. As an independent filmmaker, Virgil produced and directed Murmur, an experimental medical film which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In the previous year, he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an exhibition called Corporeal Landscape. As a visual artist, he has exhibited projects about the human body, medicine and technology in galleries and museums around the world. For more information, please visit http://virgilwong.com. |
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Literature@Work/The Robert Braham Seminar Literature@Work is a CUMC graduate-level literature seminar that meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month from noon to 1 pm (PH 9-East, Room 105). November 4, 2009: Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (preferably the Lydia Davis translation) - read to the end. November 18, 2009: Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Preferably the James Grieve translation). |
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Narrative Medicine Workshops
The Program in Narrative Medicine offers intensive small group three-day workshops for health care professionals and literary scholars engaged in narrative medicine practice. Our next workshop will be held in Venice, Italy on September 20-22, 2009. If you are interested in attending our September workshop, please click on the link above for full information about the program and for the link to registration. We thank you for your interest in our program and for making it such a wonderful success. If you need further information or to be placed on the waiting list for future workshops kindly get in contact with me either by phone or email. Craig Irvine 212-304-7213 ci44@columbia.edu |
