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- Title
A Value-Added Health Systems Science Intervention Based on My Life, My Story for Patients Living with HIV and Medical Students: Translating Narrative Medicine from Classroom to Clinic.
- Authors
Chou, Jonathan C.; Li, Jennifer J.; Chau, Brandon T.; Walker, Tamar V. L.; Lam, Barbara D.; Ngo, Jacqueline P.; Kapetanovic, Suad; Schaff, Pamela B.; Vo, Anne T.
- Abstract
In 2018-2019, at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (KSOM), we developed and piloted a narrative-based health systems science intervention for patients living with HIV and medical students in which medical students co-wrote patients' life narratives for inclusion in the electronic health record. The pilot study aimed to assess the acceptability of the "life narrative protocol" (LNP) from multiple stakeholder positions and characterize participants' experiences of the clinical and pedagogical implications of the LNP. Students were recruited from KSOM. Patients and staff were recruited from the Maternal, Child, and Adolescent/Adult Center for Infectious Disease and Virology (MCA) at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. Ten patients, seventeen students, and ten MCA staff participated in the pilot study. Qualitative methods were used to gather data from students', patients', and staff's perspectives. Three themes emerged from the thematic analysis: (1) patients' life narratives conveyed their unique life experiences and voices; (2) the protocol could result in wide-ranging effects on HIV care; (3) the LNP enabled students to contribute value to patients' healthcare. Across groups, participants considered the LNP an acceptable intervention. The LNP, its limitations, and implications for HIV care, narrative medicine, and health information technology are presented.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of Southern California; MEDICAL students; NARRATIVE medicine; SYSTEMS theory; HEALTH information technology; ELECTRONIC health records
- Publication
Journal of Medical Humanities, 2021, Vol 42, Issue 4, p659
- ISSN
1041-3545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10912-021-09714-1