For many years, the author has used student-written narratives to assess various elements of professionalism with future and practicing health professionals. This presentation will explore the pedagogical approach to this form of “narrative professionalism” by which students write then reflect on their own experiences with death and dying as a means of inculcating professionalism in their care of patients (and themselves). The presentation will then end with a reading of the author’s own reflections on death and dying while a student bioethicist immersed in the health care setting during his doctoral training. If time permits, participants will be invited to write their own narrative about death and dying and the author will facilitate a session of narrative professionalism with participants.
About the presenterDavid Perlman
David Perlman is an award-winning bioethics educator, scholar, and writer. He is visiting professor at University of the Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Public Health, where he teaches courses on public health ethics, law, and policy, and business ethics, and conducts research on these topics. A senior lecturer at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, he teaches required undergraduate nursing courses in clinical ethics.