Dear Leaders and Writers in Narrative Medicine, Medical Humanities, and Reflective Practice,

Below you will find a call for papers for the new Reflective Practice section in the international journal, Patient Education and Counseling. Please forward the announcement to anyone you think might be interested. We welcome your submissions.

Regards,
Beth Rider
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Elizabeth Rider, MSW, MD, FAAP
Co-Director, Communication Skills Teaching Program
Coordinator of Faculty Development
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115
email: elizabeth_rider @ hms.harvard.edu

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Call for Papers

Reflective Practice:
Patient Education and Counseling, presents a new section
comprised of selected narratives on reflective practice.

Reflective Practice provides a voice for physicians and other healthcare providers, patients and their family members, trainees and medical educators. The title emphasizes the importance of reflection in our learning and how our patient care and own self-care can be improved through reflective practice, similar to other health care provider skills. We welcome personal narratives on caring, patient-provider relationships, humanism in healthcare, professionalism and its challenges, patients' perspectives, and collaboration in patient care and counseling. Most narratives will describe personal or professional experiences that provide a lesson applicable to caring, humanism, and relationship in health care.

Submit manuscripts through the Patient Education and Counseling on-line, electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/pec. Patient Education and Counseling is an international journal indexed in Medline and 13 other related indexes. All manuscripts, including narratives, are peer-reviewed.

If you would like an electronic copy of the editorial describing the Reflective Practice section, "Sharing Stories: Narrative Medicine in an Evidence-Based World", please e-mail Dr. Hatem or Dr. Rider.

Editors:

United States:
David Hatem, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
HatemD @ ummhc.org

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, Harvard Medical School elizabeth_rider @ hms.harvard.edu

Europe:
Florence van Zuuren, PhD, University of Amsterdam and the Free University in The Netherlands FJ.van.Zuuren @ psy.vu.nl