The VA My Life My Story Project: Keeping Medical Students and Veterans Socially Connected While Physically Distanced.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Narrative competence comprises the skills of acknowledging, interpreting, and acting on the stories of others. Developing narrative competence is integral to providing patient-centered care. In January 2020, we designed a narrative medicine curriculum in which medical students at the San Francisco Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center in California participated as interviewers in My Life My Story (MLMS) program. The curricular objectives for medical students were to build life story skills, appreciate the impact of storytelling on a veteran's health care experience, and understand the VA mission.

Observations

Students attended a training session to build narrative medicine skills, interviewed a veteran, entered their life story into the health record, and attended

SUBMITTER: Walker E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8843003 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature