Rita Charon, MD — internal medicine, education (teaching)
Courtesy Rita Charon, MD
As director of the Program in Humanities and Medicine, and the clinical skills assessment program at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Rita Charon (b. 1949) developed an innovative new teaching method. The “parallel chart” system combined literature and medicine together to improve the doctor-patient relationship, and formed part of the only narrative competency course in a United States medical school in 1993.
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