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Share Your Event: Division of Narrative Medicine Event Sharing Process/Policy
As our wonderful community continues to grow and expand the amazing events they participate in and wish to share with the community for attendance and to keep us all connected, we're creating a policy and guidelines for submitting events via this submission form.
This update is to streamline the process for the sake of staff bandwidth and to be able to continue to support and share these events with our alumnx, students, and faculty.
If you have an upcoming event or opportunity for the community to participate inthat you would like to share please review the following guidelines and submit per the fields in the form. Rather than promoting events with individual emails, we will collect them and include them in a bi-weekly mailing to alert folks in the community.
To that end, submissions should be completed at least two weeks before the event date to ensure it is featured in an announcement with enough time for interested persons to participate.
All events should directly feature NM students faculty or alumnx of the MS and CPA programs, or be directly related to specific narrative medicine work or initiatives in the broader field.
Within this format, we will no longer be able to share images, flyers, or other media. Submissions should simply be the title, the date and time with time zone, a brief summary of the event, and a link to registration or other media sites with more information.
Columbia Narrative Medicine In the NEWS
Are you excited about recent news that you want to share with us? We would be thrilled to celebrate your fantastic news with our Narrative Medicine community! If you would like to share news you are celebrating (a publication, presentation, award, art/media, etc, or other items that are not events seeking attendance, as above) with our narrative medicine faculty, alumnx, and students, please take a moment to fill out our “In the NEWS” Google Form linked here. If you have several news items to share, please complete a separate submission for each item to ensure we have the needed supporting information and for our archive records.
Volvox: Our Alumni Speaker Series
The Volvox is the first unicellular organism to have figured out, sometime about 200 million years ago in the Triassic Period, that living in multicellular colonies was more powerful, more economical, more helpful toward survival, and maybe more fun than existing as separate isolated cells. Narrative Medicine has adopted the volvox as an icon of teamwork, transdisciplinary scholarship, the many working as one." - Rita Charon
It is in the spirit of the volvox, a monthly networking group was formed in NYC to present and discuss the varied pathways Narrative Medicine can be applied not only in clinical settings, but through education, publication, and everyday life. Contact Cherie Henderson, MS'14 to nominate a speaker.
VOLVOX: Making Narrative Medicine Happen presents:
February 19 6pm EST| Health Literacy and Racism: Designing a Symposium to Advance Equity with Jade Dickenson, MS'22
March 12 6pm EST | Parallel Charting for Medical Students: A Pilot Program with Maya J. Sorini, MS'20
April 16 6pm EST | The (Mis)Use of Fat Suffering in Weight Stigma Interventions with Rachel Fox, PhD, MS'15
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Narrative Medicine Educators
NM Educators provides a space to talk about and present anything that relates to educating from "how to edit a hypertext" to "how to engage entrepreneurially with a new college" to "what you're doing in the field of narrative practice." Membership is free, but exclusive to Columbia Narrative Medicine alums. Monthly meetings are coordinated by video conferencing. The meetings are hosted, and a scribe takes minutes which are shared with everyone in the group. Discussion topics include: educational settings, integration of Narrative Medicine in higher education curricula, workshop development, pedagogy, promotion and sales, competition, text and prompt selection. For more information, or to schedule a presentation, contact: Tony Errichetti CPA '21, Lauren Manning '19, Derek McCracken '16
Social Justice in Narrative Medicine
This group was born out of a desire to create space for students and alumni to explore issues of Social Justice within the Narrative Medicine Program, in Narrative Medicine practice, and in healthcare. Monthly newsletters are produced and weekend video conferences are held to share ideas and stories about how to contribute to manifesting one of the goals of Narrative Medicine: to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of the "Other". For more information contact Malaika Jawed.
Graphic Medicine Club
The Graphic Narratives/Graphic Medicine workshop grew out of an inspiring Comics and Medicine conference in Toronto in 2012. Pat Stanley and Marsha Hurst returned from this Conference determined to create a discussion community based in Narrative Medicine for anyone interested in reading and exploring graphic novels, and particularly graphic illness narratives. The group has met roughly once per month during the academic year since Fall 2012, usually at the Columbia Alumni Center, or at Butler Library. The workshop is now co-coordinated by graphic artist Kriota Willberg, Narrative Medicine alumni Mario de la Cruz, and Narrative Medicine faculty member Marsha Hurst. We are often joined by Karen Green, Graphic Novels Librarian and Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia and director of Comics@Columbia. The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in graphic novels and would like to share this close reading experience with others. To put your name on the email list for meeting announcements, contact Kriota Willberg.
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Created in 2010 by a group of graduate students in the Master of Science program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, Intima is a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication and understanding between caregivers and patients. Our name Intima has a specific resonance in the field: Narrative Medicine defines itself as the intimate interface between two people, one as healer, one as being healed, who both yield and gain from the experience of the clinical encounter. Contact managing Editor and Class of 2014 alum Donna Bulseco for more information or click here for submission guidelines.
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SAVE THE DATE: August 1-3, 2025
Alumnx Weekend: VIRTUAL EVENT
Open to all NMED MS and NMED Certificate alumnx!
Welcome to our annual interactive opportunity for graduates from both the MS and CPA programs to unite our growing NMED community, nurture new collaborations, and combine forces within our networks to further the mission of Narrative Medicine and applicable career pathways. As part of Columbia Narrative Medicine's commitment to Social Justice efforts, we wish to explore and highlight both practical and potential applications of NM towards social justice efforts in clinical, academic, and community settings. UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION to make sure you hear are in the loop.
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For over a decade Columbia Narrative Medicine has been improving the quality of care around the world. Make sure your information is up-to-date so we always know the best way to reach you.
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Post-Graduate Fellows in Narrative Medicine
The Narrative Medicine Fellowship supports projects that fortify the field of narrative medicine. Candidates for the fellowship must be graduates of Columbia University Master's of Science in Narrative Medicine who are interested in promoting narrative understanding in patient care, professional education, and curriculum development, or in forging new pathways in research important to the growth of the field of narrative medicine. Proposals are due Thursday, July 31, 2025 for funding during the 2025-2026 academic year.
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Invest in our shared mission to fortify medical professionals, artists, and writers with the skills to improve the quality of care around the world. Simply type in "Narrative Medicine Gift Account" here and give today.
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