Topic: Listening more and measuring less: Student and Faculty Perspectives on Social Narratives in Care for Older Adults

Overview

Dr. Megan Young is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She received her MD degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She then went on to complete a primary care residency in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center and a clinician-educator fellowship in Geriatrics at Boston University Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Dean in the office of student affairs where she runs the medical student advising program. Additionally she is the clerkship director for a 4-week required rotation in geriatrics and sits on the Clinical Curriculum Subcommittee. Clinically she provides home base primary care to frail elders in the community surrounding Boston Medical Center. She is the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility leader for the section of Geriatrics.

The My Life My Story (MLMS) project was started through the Veterans administration in 2013 with the goal of bringing the patient’s voice to the medical record. All medical students at Boston University now participate in the MLMS during their geriatrics rotation. Dr. Young will outline student and faculty perspectives on these written narratives including how the process impacts care they provide for patients and how it influences the physician students become.