Narrative Medicine Webcast Post-Test

Feel no more confident than before.

Feel a little more confident than before.

Feel somewhat more confident.

Feel more confident than before.

Feel a lot more confident than before.

Asking each patient to tell a story about their illness as that is therapeutic.

It is clinical practice fortified by knowing what to do with the accounts persons give of themselves (stories).

Learning how to become a creative writer in order to publish books about medicine.

Giving patients poems to read while you enter data in the computer.

Being able to discuss medical novels and non-fiction by joining a book club.

Writing narratives about the patients encountered each day.

Close reading, which in the clinical encounter means to listen and watch carefully.

Doing all the work required by computer processes up front so you can engage the patient as you are both leaving the exam room.

The central focus is the doctor and the patient.

The intensity of the doctor’s focus on the patient.

The experience of the parents is concerning to the observer.

The time of day is suggested by the low light in the room, the light from the lamp, and that coming in the window.

All the above.