NarrativeRx

NarrativeRx is an online learning platform dedicated to transforming health care through literature, philosophy, and the arts. Our e-learning programs include an 8-week course, live ZOOM discussion groups, and narrative medicine workshops for individuals or companies. Our instructors are Narrative Medicine scholars certified by Columbia University with clinical backgrounds in pain care. "The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. Adopting methods such as close reading of literature and reflective writing allows narrative medicine to examine and illuminate 4 of medicine's central narrative situations: physician and patient, physician and self, physician and colleagues, and physicians and society. With narrative competence, physicians can reach and join their patients in illness, recognize their own personal journeys through medicine, acknowledge kinship with and duties toward other health care professionals, and inaugurate consequential discourse with the public about health care. By bridging the divides that separate physicians from patients, themselves, colleagues, and society, narrative medicine offers fresh opportunities for respectful, empathic, and nourishing medical care." ~Rita Charon