Volume 10, Number 1, 2023 Healing Spaces

EN:

Factors that detract from making meaningful connections with patients and finding meaning and joy in medical practice have found their way into resident education. Burnout and moral injury are increasingly reported by residents across specialties. [1, 2] A curriculum in Narrative Medicine was established at a community hospital family medicine residency as an antidote to these influences. Evaluative survey data and qualitative semi structured interviews reveal that the program created healing spaces for residents. This essay describes the program features and the evidence provided by the residents endorsing the healing impact of the program.

EN:

This short narrative describes the challenges of adapting consultation settings to both the needs of adolescents with psychiatric disorders and to the institutional constraints. We show how interior and exterior healing spaces may coexist and thereby enrich each other.

FR:

Ce court récit décrit les défis que représente l'adaptation des lieux de consultation à la fois aux aux besoins des adolescents souffrant de troubles psychiatriques et aux contraintes institutionnelles. Nous montrons comment les espaces de soins extérieurs et intérieurs peuvent coexister, et ainsi s'enrichir mutuellement.