The authors present and discuss an activity of the extension project “Prescribing stories: development of narrative competence in medical students, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”. The focus of the article is the description of the developed methodology: distribution of literary pills in the waiting room of an outpatient clinic and production of narratives from this experience, as well as the analysis of the created narratives. The article is divided into sections. Initially, the dynamics of the activity’s development and the methodological procedure conceived for the analysis of the analysis of the material produced are presented, based on virtual group meetings. Then, the analysis of the 25 narratives is addressed, emphasizing their voices, themes and linguistic resources The authors conclude that the in question didactic-pedagogical resource enabled the incorporation of humanistic values in the education of medical students.
Keywords
Medical education; Medicine in literature; Narrative medicine; Health care; Waiting room
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