Most medical students learn to write reflection the way they learn to take blood: reluctantly, under supervision, and mainly to get signed off. The portfolio wants a reflective entry, so one gets produced (and increasingly, with the help of AI). It describes an event, names an emotion, cites a model
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A working map of narrative medicine and health humanities resources: courses you can take online, free teaching materials, communities to join, and open archives.
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An honest, up-to-date map of good homes for short reflective and creative writing about illness and care — essays, stories, and poems, not academic papers. Last checked early 2026; always confirm current guidelines before you send. You wrote the piece. Maybe it started as five minutes against a timer
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Forty narrative medicine writing prompts for clinicians, students, patients, and carers, with a simple method for writing to them.
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A HEART reading list: the journals, newsletters, and books we return to — and think you will love too. Every publication has its kin. HEART began from a simple conviction — that stories belong near the centre of medicine, not at its margins — and we have never held it alone. Some of
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