2023-11-20 12:14:08
Bordeaux University Hospital is launching the first Chair of Narrative Medicine in France. Objective: to provide caregivers with methods and narrative tools to support them in their relationship with patients. The chair operates on three axes: initial and continuing training, scientific and clinical research and acculturation to the methodologies of narrative medicine.
The Narrative Medicine – Healthy Hospitality chair has just been created at Bordeaux University Hospital. It is the first chair in narrative medicine in France. Working in the national ecosystem of humanities in health with the Chair of Philosophy at the Hospital, directed by Cynthia Fleury, of which she forms an antenna, her vocation is to place narrative medicine on a clinical and academic level. The collaboration between the hospital and academics allows the chair of narrative medicine to provide caregivers with methods and narrative tools to support them in their relationship with patients. The chair operates on three axes: initial and continuing training, scientific and clinical research and acculturation to the methodologies of narrative medicine.
Clinical and academic discipline, since the founding work of Columbia University (Pr. Rita Charon), narrative medicine puts the caring relationship at the heart of the therapeutic act so as not to limit it to the medical construction of illness. Paying attention to stories allows us to preserve the complexity of the patients’ story and all those who weave the care relationship. Reinvest listening in the care relationship and sensitivity to lived experience, to language, for healthy hospitality.
The project
Promote an equitable, inclusive and sustainable health system
The Narrative Medicine – Healthy Hospitality chair aims to bring regarding a narrative change in the relationship between caregivers – patients – caregivers to promote a health system, a place of sensitive hospitality.
Patrons of the chair are invited to participate in the co-construction of a strategic project for the health system of tomorrow by joining the steering committee of the first chair of narrative medicine in France.
The chair intervenes both in cultural places (MusBA, Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux, la Méca) and on the university and hospital campus (St André Hospitals, Charles Perrens, Pellegrin through among others the media library of patients of Bordeaux hospitals , Carreire campus, etc.).
Its activities are set to develop in the metropolis and the territory, also with a strong international dimension linked to the Philosophy Chair at the Hospital, the University of Montreal, etc.
Missions
- Promote a care pathway co-created with people, taking into account all the complexity of the illness life.
- Promote a dynamic of listening in the tripartite relationship of nursing and hospital staff, with caregivers and patients.
- Promote a habit of tripartite collaboration: caregiver – patient – caregiver.
- Obtain a lasting impact through long-term action (initial and continuing training, acculturation of the audiences concerned).
- Develop alternative clinical and scientific methodologies in the health system.
- Develop a center of academic and clinical excellence in narrative medicine in Bordeaux.
With this objective, the chair has already implemented or plans to develop various activities:
- The HopLiSen research project (Hospital, sensitive place) – MSH Bordeaux, Bordeaux University Hospital, University of Montreal which constitutes the first phase of a larger project to follow on “The hospital as a sensitive place”. It combines narrative medicine with research-creation in order to engage narrative medicine towards greater consideration of places and to work on the integration of places in the care process. Narrative medicine workshops will be offered to caregivers, hospital staff and HSS researchers, as well as an international conference and a residency by the artist Eduardo BERTI.
- The research-creation project “Maison Notman/Pavillon V” – MSH Bordeaux, Bordeaux University Hospital, University of Montreal aims to make the voices of patients audible through research-creation linked to the archives of these two places of care. A cycle of seminars is notably organized from October to December 2023.
- The ENNACs research project (Experience, Narrativity, Digital in Conversational Agents in health) – MSH Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux University Hospital, Collège des Bernardins proposes to explore the sensitive experience that can be established with autonomous conversational agents (ACA) , virtual characters with human appearance that can communicate both verbally and non-verbally with their users.
The chair is also member of the International and Transversal Creation Network in Care (RéCITS) (University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux University Hospital, University of Montreal) and contributes to various webinars and creative workshops on care.
How does the project work?
A steering committee, bringing together future patrons, will be set up within the framework of the chair and will rely on the scientific council currently being established.
Lead project leaders
Isabelle Galichon : Doctor in French-speaking and comparative literature, specialist in self-narrative in narrative medicine (IMIC/CHU de Bordeaux, PLURIELLES/Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Jean-Arthur Micoulaud : Psychiatrist, sleep doctor, PU-PH in Physiology at Bordeaux University Hospital and the University of Bordeaux (University Service of Sleep Medicine, Sanpsy/Neurocampus Health College, University of Bordeaux)
Read in addition – Why a chair of narrative medicine in Bordeaux?
Source: Bordeaux University Foundation
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