Title: AMSA Presents: America Needs You Fellowship Program Information Session

Description: The Hunter College chapter of the American Medical Student Association will be hosting an information session about the America Needs You Fellowship Program, open to current Freshman.

Title: Music is Medicine Club Meeting

Description: Join Music is Medicine for an interest meeting to discover how you can connect your passion for music with community service. Members of the club perform for patients in the hospital with the goal of alleviating patient stress and brightening the hospital atmosphere.

Title: Methods in Narrative Medicine Workshop Series # 1

Description: The Pre-Health Advising Office in partnership Columbia University’s Masters Program in Narrative Medicine will be offering a Methods in Narrative Medicine workshop series. This Basic Workshops provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine. These intensive workshops will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative competence. Participants will learn effective techniques for attentive listening, adopting others’ perspectives, accurate representation, and reflective reasoning. Sessions will focus on reconceptualizing empathy, narrative ethics, bearing witness, and illness narratives. Professionalism, cultural competence, bioethical competence, interpersonal communication skills, self-reflective practice, and ability to work with health care teams can be strengthened by increasing narrative competence. You may also include this experience on your application to health professional schools.