Attendance at the June 5-6 writers’ seminar that was featured in Tuesday’s UNMC Today is open to all who are interested.
The seminar, which will be held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Thompson Alumni Center and coordinated through UNMC Continuing Education, will expose attendees to and engage them in the workshop process that has been used during the Seven Doctors Project.
Initiated in early 2008, the Seven Doctors Project pairs health care professionals with writers in a writing workshop environment.
Three groups of health care professionals have participated in the project and several more already have lined up for a fourth session.
Surgery professor Byers Shaw Jr., M.D., is a two-time participant in the project. He said he and others were able to explore — through writing — common professional issues, emotions and experiences in a way that left many participants refreshed.
“We were able to discuss issues that you don’t normally talk about when you’re concerned with medication levels and procedures,” Dr. Shaw said. “We have been able to confront common frustrations and feelings that many of us experience and these discussions have proven to be quite therapeutic.”
Several writers and physicians from the Seven Doctors Project will participate in the seminar as will Margaret Lemay-Lewis, founding director of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Writing Program.
The first day of the conference will introduce participants to the workshop process and on the second day, attendees will participate themselves.
Click here to register online and here to see a blog about the Seven Doctors Project.