In September 2019, the UW Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine Interest Group collaborated with Capillaries: The Journal of Narrative Medicine, & The Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice (CHSIE). Together they coordinated a four-day long, free-health clinic (at the Seattle/King County Clinic) during which CHSIE sponsored a pilot service-learning project called The Listening Project. During this project, 70 interprofessional students came to the clinic and simply listened to the stories of patients seeking medical services. The end result: patient responses on issues of mental health and healthcare access, and student reflections on health inequities. The main takeaway: the importance of listening.
Capillaries published the reflections of patients and students in their Spring 2019 Edition.