Sep 20, 2024
OHIO University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2022-2023
OHIO University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 2022-2023
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OCOM 6050 - Narrative Medicine for Social Justice and Inclusion 1: Open Book Project
The first course of the Open Book Project elective series explores issues of social justice and inclusion in medicine. Grounded in Rita Charon’s (2007, 2017) narrative medicine methodology, the Open Book Project elective (OBP1) introduces preclinical medical students to a unique framework for understanding, interpreting and interacting with the lived experiences of others; skills and techniques for empathy building, self-reflection, and connecting to others at a deeper, humanistic level; and an approach to clinical practice in which narrative sensibilities inform how physicians listen to and provide care to their patients. Through practice in the process of close reading, radical listening and expressing our own stories, narrative medicine facilitates relationship building and a deeper understanding of physicians and patients alike. Students will participate in two sessions of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) led by staff of the Kennedy Art Museum.
Credit Hours:1
Course Outcomes
- Students will be able to describe the relationship between narrative competencies to osteopathic medical practice.
- Students will be able to practice narrative medicine skills, including close reading, radical listening, and reflective writing.
- Students will be able to explore ideologies and worldviews using a narrative approach.
- Students will be able to apply a narrative framework to complex issues of social justice, inequities, and disparities.
- Students will be able to articulate narrative approaches enhancing personal, professional, and clinical relationships.
- Students will be able to describe a process of reflective practice that increases perspective-taking and awareness of issues of social justice.
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