Cursus d'initiation à la Médecine Narrative

Description

The Maison de la Médecine et de la Culture, in collaboration with the University of Lisbon, is offering an intensive program of narrative medicine workshops for around 30 participants. The training cycle will close with a Ciné-conférence-débat, open to the general public, featuring Mike Nichols' film Wit.

As part of the "Medical Humanities" program, the aim is to provide a grounding in narrative medicine (NM) through an approach to the human and social sciences in three interrelated fields:

literature,
medical ethics,
philosophy.
The aim is to enrich the thinking and practice of (future) doctors by raising awareness of the methods and tools that Narrative Medicine can bring to diagnosis and clinical relationships, and by gaining a better understanding of the discourses and mechanisms involved in the representation and communication of illness.

Focusing on questions and texts linked to medicine (such as the care relationship and experience, putting feelings and suffering into words), we will discuss concrete cases and try to respond to concerns directly linked to daily professional life.

How to listen to the patient?
What can we hear, what can we understand, in his or her story but also outside his or her words?
What does individuation mean in medicine?
The workshops will be conducted in tandem, encouraging reciprocal immersion and a multidisciplinary approach, at the crossroads of literature, medical ethics and philosophy.

Period	28 Feb 2018
Event type	Course
Location	Nice, FranceShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International