{"pk":48027,"title":"Who is My Patient? Use of a Brief Writing Exercise to Enhance Residents' Understanding of Physician-Patient Issues","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Writing workshops and narrative experiences for medical trainees can be a useful way to approach certain issues in their education. This article describes a brief writing exercise that can be used for physicians in training to help them recognize issues of countertransference in the doctor-patient relationship. While these issues are generally covered as part of residents’ behavioral science curriculum, this exercise allows trainees to use a creative method in order to uncover them. To date, this exercise has been used in two residency programs with residents informally expressing improved understanding of their own experience with patients.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Medicine"},{"word":"Medical Education"},{"word":"narrative"}],"section":"Narrative and Storytelling","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6k05055t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Joanne","middle_name":"E","last_name":"Wilkinson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Boston University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2006-12-02T08:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2006-12-02T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2006-12-01T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cla_jlta/article/48027/galley/36165/download/"}]}