Our Programs

Learn more about our narrative medicine programs at UCSF.

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Meaningful Medicine

Meaningful Medicine is a podcast that highlights stories of healthcare professionals who have found meaning in their work.

We facilitate narrative medicine for fellows, faculty, and staff working in the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building.

UCSF medical students participate in this narrative initiative during their internal medicine clerkships.

The UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care offers a variety of poetic medicine workshops.

We facilitate narrative medicine for pediatric residents at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and San Francisco.

We offer a reading program for patients at the UCSF Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Clinic.

UCSF offers several courses related to narrative medicine, creative writing, and the health humanities.