Chou, Jonathan C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9977-9178
Li, Jennifer J.
Chau, Brandon T.
Walker, Tamar V. L.
Lam, Barbara D.
Ngo, Jacqueline P.
Kapetanovic, Suad
Schaff, Pamela B.
Vo, Anne T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
southern california clinical and translational science institute (UL1TR001855)
Article History
Accepted: 30 September 2021
First Online: 1 November 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was granted according to institutional review board protocol 45 CFR 46.110, University of Southern California, reference #HS-18-00938.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: <sup>1</sup> Several recent articles published about MLMS, including in the popular press, cite the field of narrative medicine as supporting evidence for the rationale behind the program (Nathan, Schwartz, and Topor ; Roberts et al. ; Schiffman ). It is worth noting however the different histories of MLMS and narrative medicine: whereas narrative medicine originated within an academic medical center context primarily as an intervention on healthcare education (emphasizing the development of “narrative competence” as an explicit and primary outcome of medical training), MLMS originated as a clinical intervention within the VA system and only later was adapted for educational purposes (Charon ; Charon et al. ; Milota, van Thiel and van Delden ).<sup>2</sup> All names of participants in this paper are pseudonyms.