This session featured Maya Sorini, a fourth-year medical student and poet at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Maya has an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia, and her clinical and artistic work focuses on emergency medicine.
Maya presented a draft conference talk and outline of her planned curriculum on parallel charting, a process through which medical practitioners use writing to reflect on their clinical experiences. Parallel charting has the potential to reduce burnout and moral injury among clinicians and is particularly important for practitioners who deal with traumatic injuries to otherwise healthy patients.