Dear colleagues,
As part of the Center of Innovation and e-Health (CieH-UFMCD), in collaboration with the University
of Bucharest and the international association Students for Health Humanities, our medical and
health humanities team has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in The Power of Stories:
Narrative Medicine in Practice workshop held by our special lecturer Amanda M. Caleb, PhD, MPH.
Brief description: In this interactive session, students will learn the principles and application of
narrative medicine, including how it can cultivate narrative humility. Students will participate in a
narrative medicine workshop that includes engaging with storytelling, writing their own stories, and
listening and reflecting on the stories shared during the session. By the end of the session, students
will gain confidence in understanding the applications of narrative medicine as part of their
professional identity formation and in the care of patients. Note: students will be asked to share
their writing in small groups (2-3 students).
Learning objectives:
- Identify the principles of narrative medicine and its application in patient care.
- Describe narrative humility and its application in patient care
- Apply the practice of narrative medicine and narrative humility in responding to others’
stories - Evaluate how storytelling can inform evidence-based practice
Bio: Amanda M. Caleb, PhD, MPH, is professor of medical humanities at Geisinger Commonwealth
School of Medicine in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she directs the medical humanities initiatives
and the social justice and health equity theme. She holds a PhD in English and an MA in nineteenth-
century studies from The University of Sheffield, an MPH from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, and a BA in English from Davidson College. Her research interests include the medical
and public health humanities, health communication, health narratology, narrative medicine, and
bioethics and the Holocaust. She has published articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the
medicalization of social policies to the rhetoric of pandemics, to the marginalization of people with
disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, to dementia and the role of narrative medicine.
The content will be exclusively presented in English!!
When and Where?
Date: Friday, 15th of December
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 EEST, Bucharest Time Zone
Place: 20 Pitar Moș Street, Ground Floor, Bucharest – Conference Room, CieH (in-person
participation)
Online: Students for Health Humanities participants will receive an invitation via Zoom
Registration: https://forms.gle/QTK388sp89eJZpzU6
—The number of participants is limited to 30, and acceptance is tied to the order in which
participants register—
Contact info:
Medical Humanities Assistant: Stud. Mounzer Boustani
Telesemiology Assistant: Stud. Andrei Arpinte
Medical Humanities Coordinator: Gabriela Florea, MD, PhDc
Email: medhum@umfcd.ro / Tel: 0725359175
Remember to share this event with friends and colleagues!
Special remark: We owe this event to the collaboration with Students for Health Humanities (SHH),
without whom we would not have had the opportunity to host our distinguished guest lecturer,
Amanda M. Caleb, PhD, MPH.
Event organized as part of the CNFIS-FDI-2023-F-0709 project, within CieH-UMFCD
