To promote the development of narrative competence in healthcare, the Narrative Medicine Case Competition (NMCC) will host students from UBC from different faculties to tackle a patient/community health crisis case. Students will be placed into teams to work collaboratively to design an encompassing treatment or tool for treatment for their patient/client. The design process will prompt teams to factor in accessibility and inter-professional communication. Participants will have to address challenges in equipping healthcare providers with attainable and effective means to treat their patients. The goal of NMCC is to provide an opportunity for students to navigate the multidimensional challenges in healthcare delivery, with the guidance and experiences of mentors in academic, clinical and patient-end experiences. 

Humanities in Healthcare's Narrative Medicine Case Competition will have students in groups of 3-4 tackle these issues and present their plan to address the patient's medical conditions, and the patient's goals, as well as comment on systemic barriers that could be addressed to assist in this patient's treatment. The case will be a hypothetical patient story that we will use to start a conversation on patient-centered care among prospective healthcare professionals.

To facilitate this learning endeavor we are hoping to include mentors with a wide range that represent different aspects of healthcare as well as different perspectives. Mentors will be the key players in the competition that will provide participants with real-world insight and help guide the team's thought processes. Mentors do not have to be available for the entire competition. We are looking to schedule a wide variety of mentors across both days. We would be able to accommodate based on individual schedules but we hope that mentors can be available 3-5 hours in total. We are looking for mentors from the following but not limited to:

- Senior Medical Students

- Resident Physicians

- Social Workers

- Paramedics

- Nurses 

- Patient Advocates 

We are looking for judges to help us evaluate the projects put forward by the teams. As a judge, you have an innate knowledge of healthcare and are able to contribute your expertise as part of a panel to evaluate the pitches. Judges would need to be available on the Sunday of the event weekend from 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm. We are looking for judges from the following:

- Family Medicine Physicians

- Patients

- Nurses

- Social Workers