This event is open to all Doctors Manitoba members. Space is limited to 20 seats. 

Breakfast will be served. 

Date: Saturday, June 7^th : 9AM-Noon
Location: Doctors Manitoba, 20 Desjardins Drive, Winnipeg

Every doctor is taught to ​“take” a history. But many of us forget how to ​“receive” a story. 

Medicine has always been a narrative enterprise. Stories are how doctors and patients communicate and make meaning over time, in the face of illness and suffering. We all carry stories of triumph and inspiration but also of failure, error, regret, exhaustion. We can be burdened by stories that are distressing and have never been fully metabolized. Seeing every patient’s story as unique builds curiosity, reflective capacity and brings renewal in our work. These are all effective antidotes to burnout. 

The field of narrative-based medicine has demonstrated that developing narrative competence leads to better care of patients and to better self-care for the physician. Reading and sharing pieces of writing in a group underscores our need to be mindful and present in clinical encounters, to process and represent those encounters and to learn from each other. This workshop will demonstrate how skills like close listening, close looking (visual literacy) and close reading, along with reflective writing can improve narrative competence. Practical strategies for using more narrative-based approaches in a busy clinical practice will be provided. 

This event offers 3 hours of certified continuing professional development hours and is certified for credits by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for Mainpro+ and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

Facilitator: Dr. Allan Peterkin