Our proposal for a Narrative Medicine Colloquium at Duke University has been approved.

The Narrative Medicine Colloquium will be a year-long exploration of the activities and programs already in place at Duke that give faculty, caregivers, students, and others the opportunity to reflect on their lives through stories. The colloquium is also a focused effort to look for new ways to build narrative into the research, medical education, clinical care, and employee health at Duke. It's especially a chance to ask how narrative can strengthen the resiliency of us all.

This colloquium will be one of many interdisciplinary activities funded by the School of Medicine that bring together basic science, translational and clinical faculty members with common interests in a biomedical problem or area.

Blogging where?

Now, where to put our narrative medicine blog to keep track of our discussions and explorations and events?

For example, the David M. Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library will present an Oral History Workshop with Craig Breaden on October 20.

Maybe we'll use the MedicineNews blog, or maybe we'll use 1999.

Over there

I bought the domain dukenarrative.blog.