Leadership & Professional Development

(SA13) Using Documentary and Narratives in PALTC for Medical Education and Staff Retention

Saturday, March 11, 2023

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET

Room: 120/121

CME: (1) MOC: (1) CMD Management: (1) Nursing Contact Hours: (1) AAFP: (1)

Core concepts and modalities of documentary and narrative medicine will be reviewed. A QI project using documentary in medical education to tell residents’ life stories will be presented including the positive impact the project had on the staff in PALTC. We will showcase two examples of documentary in PALTC used in medical education. The session will end with roundtable discussion and brainstorming for participants to determine where they can employ documentary and narrative medicine to promote PALTC, education, staff engagement, joy at work and reduce burnout and/ or turnover.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

Describe core concepts and modalities of documentary and narrative medicine
Identify the benefits of using documentary and narrative medicine for medical education and for long term care promotion
formulate ideas where documentary in medicine may be implemented and apply learned principles/ techniques in your own healthcare setting

Session Chair/Speaker(s)

LV

Lidia A. Vognar, MD MHS cMD

Program Director, Associate Professor
North Providence, Rhode Island

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Speaker(s)

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Gwendolen Buhr, MD, MHS, MEd, CMD

Associate Professor
Durham, North Carolina
Joanna Abi Chebl (she/her/hers)

Geriatric Fellow
Providence, Rhode Island