COURSE SYLLABUS

To register, visit http://www.creativityandmadness.com/2011/narrative-medicine-online/.

PARTICIPANTS WILL:

   1. Understand the importance of listening to and hearing the patient’s story
   2. Learn both direct and indirect ways facilitate the telling of the story
   3. Learn to nurture and enhance clinical communication
   4. Be able to utilize narrative skills in practice
   5. Be able to teach narrative medicine skills

TO QUALIFY FOR THE CME, PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED TO:

    * Answer questions posted on line, about the readings and the movies.
    * Answer two questions and respond to the answers of two other learners.

Evaluation of learning and credit is based upon satisfactory answering of these questions. AIMED is the sole sponsor of this course that offers continuing education credit.

Reciprocal credit toward the Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Narrative, offered by the Center for Narrative Studies is available.  A paper or creative work must be completed and submitted. Please contact Lewis Mehl-Madrona separately at mehlmadrona@gmail.com.

Credit toward the Certificate Program is offered by the Center for Narrative Studies as a courtesy for no additional charge to participants.
Course Description and Objectives

Narrative Medicine is an area increasing in importance in health care. What does it mean? Medicine often forgets the importance of listening to the patient’s story. There is great power in listening attentively, reflecting on what is communicated in life stories of illness and suffering. This technique helps the patient see his or her illness and problems from a different perspective. Narrative medicine helps the patient  hear and understand his or her own story, and how illness has become part of the story and the identity. Doctors, nurses, social workers, and other therapists can improve the effectiveness of the care they provide.
Course participants will:

   1. Enhance their skills for listening, reflecting ,and discussing with patients and colleagues
   2. Understand the relationships between illness and personal lives; the importance of uncovering the emotional, sociocultural, psychological and political components that often are the deepest roots of illness.
   3. Develop an enriched understanding of empathy.

Accreditation: AIMED designates this live activity for a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. AIMED also is approved for Psychologists, Social Workers, MFT’s Counselors, RN’s and others. Please call if you need more information.

ACCME, APA, California Board of Behavioral Sciences PCE 098, California Board of Registered Nurses CEP 4359, National Board of Certified Counselors NBCC #5800, National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors NAADAC #311, Florida Boards of Social Workers, MFT, Medicine and Psychology BAP #41, Texas Board of Examiners for Social Work CS #3190 and MFT #198.

All health care professionals and trainees in medicine, nursing, dentistry, social work, psychology are invited to join. We also welcome scholars in other fields. This course integrates material from literature, psychology and anthropology. Examples will be drawn from the United States, Canada, and beyond.

This course will be a journey of discovery and excitement. How do stories move us?  How do patient stories affect us?  How do  they change our practice?  How do they affect who we are as healers?  How do they affect how we feel about our work?

To  register, please call us at 800 348 8441 or email aimed@earthlink.net

Join Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Dr. Amy Vail for exciting journey into the world of Narrative Medicine .
Schedule

Students will need to attend one discussion group per week.  They will be able to choose between attending the live lecture or listening to it online.
WEEK  1

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday May 12
7pm-8:30pm EST
(4pm-5:30pm PST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday May 17
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 2

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday May 19
7pm-8:30pm PST
(10-11:30pm EST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday May 24
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 3

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday May 26
7pm-9pm EST
(4pm-6pm PST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday, May 31
7pm-8pm PST, 7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 4

LIVE LECTURE (Followed by discussion group)
Thursday, June 2
7pm-9pm PST
(10-12pm EST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday June 7
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 5

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday June 9
7pm-9pm EST
(4pm-6pm PST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday, June 14
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 6

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday, June 16
7pm-9pm PST
(10-12pm EST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday June 21
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
WEEK 7

LIVE LECTURE
Thursday, June 23
7pm-9pm EST
(4pm-6pm PST)
Dr. Mehl-Madrona

DISCUSSION GROUP
Tuesday, June 28
7pm-8pm PST
7pm-8pm EST
Dr. Amy Vail
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Barbara Mainguy
TEXTS

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., Healing the Mind through the Power of Story:The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry
Publisher: Bear and Company, Rochester, Vermont

Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas)
Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (June 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816646279

Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
Paperback: 278 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (April 28, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155970005X
ISBN-13: 978-1559700054
FILMS

Travellers and Magicians. http://www.travellersandmagicians.com/ for details.  Trailer at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3LS-GR1nRM4.  Available on Netflix.

Rashomon, http://www.amazon.com/Rashomon-Criterion-Collection-Toshir%C3%B4-Mifune/dp/B00003CXC6 Available on Netflix.

Smoke Signals, available at http://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Signals-Adam-Beach/dp/6305428417/ref=pd_bxgy_d_img_b, Available on Netflix.
OTHER SUGGESTED READING

Lieblich, A., McAdams, D., Josselson, R. (2004). Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of Psychotherapy. Washington: APA

Mattingly, C. (1998). Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Cruickshank, J., Sidney, A, Smith, K., Ned, A. (2008). Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press
Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction to the Course. We will discuss Chapters 1 and 2 of Narrative Psychiatry. Please start the Thomas King novel also.

Week 2: We will discuss Chapters 3 and 4 Narrative Psychiatry. Be 2/3’s done with the King novel.

Week 3: We will discuss Chapters 5 and 6 of Narrative Psychiatry. Finish reading King’s novel.  We will watch Travellers and Magicians http://www.travellersandmagicians.com/ for details.  Trailer at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3LS-GR1nRM4.  Available on Netflix.

Week 4: We will discuss Chapters 7 and 8 from Narrative Psychiatry. Read the first third of Leslie Silko’s book.

Week 5: We will discuss chapters 9 and 10 from Narrative Psychiatry. Read the second third of Leslie Silko’s book. Watch Rashomon, http://www.amazon.com/Rashomon-Criterion-Collection-Toshir%C3%B4-Mifune/dp/B00003CXC6 or on netflix.

Week 6: We will discuss Chapters 11 and 12 from Narrative Psychiatry.  Finish Leslie Silko’s book.

Week 7: Finish Narrative Psychiatry. Watch Smoke Signals, available at http://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Signals-Adam-Beach/dp/6305428417/ref=pd_bxgy_d_img_b, or on Netflix.