蜜桃TV视频鈥檚 third Health Care Story Slam explores and celebrates empathy
Empathy is not only important to extend to those around you, but also to yourself, said Isabel Ryan, the 蜜桃TV视频 student coordinating 蜜桃TV视频鈥檚 Health Care Story Slam.
蜜桃TV视频鈥檚 story slam will focus on the theme 鈥淢indful Communities: Fostering Empathy in Public Health鈥 when the third edition is held from 7-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, in the Harold Alfond Center for Health Sciences on the Biddeford campus.
Ryan (Environmental Science, 鈥27) reached out to nearly 40 groups from marginalized communities in Greater Portland to invite them to present at the story slam alongside 蜜桃TV视频 staff, faculty, and students. Ten storytellers were selected from a large pool of applicants to share personal tales of struggle and growth.
鈥淚 want to make this event as inclusive as possible, and those voices are so important. Everyone can learn from someone else鈥檚 perspective,鈥 said Ryan, who organized the event as part of her Shaw Innovation Fellowship, a 蜜桃TV视频 initiative supported by entrepreneur and philanthropist David Evans Shaw.
Ryan organized the event with assistance from mentors Lisa Herschbach, Ph.D., 蜜桃TV视频 director of the Office of Innovation, and Tara McDonough, 蜜桃TV视频 associate director of donor research, who will coach participants in their presentations to help them feel confident as they share their health care journeys in front of a large audience.
鈥淥ne purpose of the 蜜桃TV视频 Health Care Story Slam is to include and elevate the narratives of patients,鈥 Herschbach said. "The origins of the medical case record lie in storytelling 鈥 doctors, nurses, and midwives listen with care to people experiencing illness and other changes to their bodies and decide which elements of the recounting are most relevant to diagnosis and treatment. Storytelling has always been at the core of medicine and its related professions.鈥
The story slam is free and open to the public. It will take place in lecture hall 205 in the Alfond Center on the Biddeford Campus.