167 - Develop Your Voice, Build Your Craft: Writing to Impact Our ID Community and Our World

Friday, October 18, 2024

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US PT

Location: Petree C

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-9999-24-002-L01-P
PACE Credits: Maximum of 1 of PACE contact hours
CE Broker: Maximum of 1 CE broker credit hours

Moderator(s)

Michael Melia, MD (he/him/his)

ID Fellowship Program Director
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, United States
Wendy Stead, MD (she/her/hers)

Program Director
Infectious Diseases
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, United States
Alison Rapoport, MD (she/her/hers)

Faculty, Division of Infectious Diseases
Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance
Watertown, MA, United States

Faculty(s)

Wendy Stead, MD (she/her/hers)

Program Director
Infectious Diseases
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, United States
Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, MS (he/him/his)

Assistant Dean for Medical Education
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
AS

Amy Ship, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Disclosure(s):

Michael T. Melia, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Wendy Stead, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Alison B. Rapoport, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, MS: No financial relationships to disclose

Amy Ship, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

describe the power of writing as a tool to describe the physician experience;
investigate ways that writing can advance healthcare policy and advocacy agendas;
describe the ways writing, reading and discussing poetry can foster empathy on individual and community levels.

Presentations:

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM US PT

We are Made from Stories: Narrative Medicine and Finding your Inner Writer
Speaker: Wendy Stead, MD (she/her/hers) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US PT

Narrative Medicine as a Method for Deep Engagement with Self, Other, and System
Speaker: Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, MS (he/him/his) – Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM US PT

Using Poetry in Clinical Care and Education
Speaker: Amy Ship, MD – Harvard Medical School