Narrative Medicine (NM) curricula have never been formally tailored to meet the needs of general surgery resident. In this study we report on creation, implementation and evaluation a “Narrative Surgery” (NS) curriculum. Forty- eight residents at an academic residency program participated in NS Twenty- narrative prompts with associated art/ literature were sent by email every 1–2 weeks between ...

This paper examines the causes and consequences of the narrative paradox phenomenon widely observed in VR. We present an alternative approach to virtual and interactive storytelling in the form of the emergent narrative concept, together with an implementation of a subset of these ideas in the FearNot! demonstrator.

Emergent narrative is an approach to interactive storytelling in which stories result from local interactions of autonomous characters. We describe a technique for emergent narrative that enables the characters to fill in the story world during the simulation when this is useful for the developing story.