Abstract
This article offers a summary of my thesis work for the title of medical Doctor. The main objective of my thesis was to create and experiment a teaching of narrative medicine with 4th year volunteer medicine students from Montpellier University, after having studied how the subject is already taught in France and around the world. The secondary purpose was to evaluate the students’ satisfaction and analyse the way they experienced this teaching.Nine students participated in three sessions, each based on a pedagogical model in three phases : attentive reading of a literary text, reflexive or creative writing, then sharing their writings. They identified benefits from narrative medicine : accepting their emotions, sharing them with their peers, improving their reflexivity, accessing the patient’s perspective, and building their professional identity. Their difficulties were to get into writing and to share what they had written. They wanted to diversify the mediums, to have external stakeholders participative, and regular sessions from the beginning of hospital internships. We will offer an optional course for the 3rd year medicine students in Montpellier, from September 2021.