HIPPA and Lifespan-Brown Compliant Narratives. The Lifespan-Brown Checklist, created by Brown Medicine, expands upon HIPAA compliance to ensure that narrative medicine does not compromise patient privacy.
Have all specific demographic identities been changed or removed
Is the narrative devoid of any medical identifiers?
Beyond HIPAA: Ethical discussion of patient experiences.Narrative Medicine is a useful tool through which providers and students write about patient stories and encounters. It is of utmost importance that this does not overwrite patient integrity. When writing about patients, remember that though the encounter was a shared experience, the medical experience belongs to the patient. We encourage narrative medicine and implore that in-Training is not an archive of stories usingor exploiting the patient experience to benefit the medical student experience.
Has this story made assumptions about the patient’s personal attributes?
Does this story dramatize the patient’s medical experience for literary enhancement?
Does this piece respect the integrity of the patient experience, or does it place my own education/experience over that of the person seeking medical care?
Op-Eds: in-Training will not publish hearsay.
Claims about persons or institutions should be limited, cited and may be edited (with author notification).
Direct quotes that are not cited and/or not a result of a proper interview/known conversation will not be permitted.
in-Training implores contributing writers to respect the integrity of their peers.
in-Training will not publish, or will request edits to be made on, pieces that make sweeping negative assumptions about medical student peers.
We encourage authors to thoroughly research their Op-Eds and conduct relevant interviews, insert relevant statistics, and hold their piece to the highest statistical and journalistic standards when discussing medical student trends.
In-Training values, highlights and contributes to the inter-professional community required for the highest quality of patient care.
Though in-Training is a publication for the medical student experience, we maintain that physicians and medical students are part of an expansive network of professionals responsible for patient care. In-Training will not publish pieces that partake in stereotyping or projection of stereotypes regarding any healthcare specialty nor hospital staff or student body.
In-Training maintains a diverse and inclusive voice, and will not permit the use of any language or content that detracts from this mission. We promote free expression aligned with physician ideals of ensuring widespread health and freedom from harm.