Narrative Medicine

BU Education Conference Narrative Medicine Poster

Storytelling has traditionally been used as a source of community building and bonding. Narrative medicine can be used as a source of understanding clinical interactions and empathizing with clinical colleagues. In 2021, DFM MedMoth events were included as a part of the Grand Round series. Med Moth is coordinated by Nidhi Lal and family medicine residents.

The links to the Med Moth events are as follows:

1. 7/20/21- Dropbox – 7-20-21 Session – Simplify your life
2. 2/22/22- Motivation
3. 8/22/22 – Patient Advocacy
4. 3/28/23- Global is Local
5. 10/10/23- Narrative Medicine
6. 4/9/24- Narrative Medicine

Family Medicine has had a variety of resources for faculty development in Narrative writing. These include the Faculty Development Program for Narrative writing https://www.bumc.bu.edu/facdev-medicine/.

Current Family Medicine projects in Narrative Medicine include

• Using patient stories to address vaccine hesitancy through Everyday Boston (https://www.everydayboston.org/morethanavaccine) – Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD
• Dance as a Narrative Tool to Explore Postpartum Depression in the South Asian Community – PI, Nidhi Lal, MD
• Musings Podcast with Nidhi Lal, MD – sharing patient stories and the experiences in Family Medicine featuring several faculty, residents and medical students in Family Medicine – https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/musings-by-nidhi