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Patel1 · Joshua Hauser2  \nAccepted: 10 September 2024 / Published online: 12 October 2024 © The Author(s) 2024  \nAbstract  \nIt is a foundational principle of medical humanities that the appreciation of literature and other humanities enrich and expand medical training. But what are the mechanisms by which this happens? As a faculty member and former medical student, who met during an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional 5-session poetry seminar, we reflect on how poetry enriches our own experiences working with patients, as well as how we care for patients. Reading poetry in medicine has the potential to enhance observational skills, model an appreciation of uncertainties, and generate joy. Similar to our seminar, other institutions may also consider incorporating poetry into curricula.  \nKeywords Poetry · Medical humanities · Medical education · Medical students · Poetry curricula  \nThrough a 5-session medical humanities seminar, we (JH) teach poetry and medicine to medical students (TP) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The course is interdisciplinary in both its faculty (including physicians like JH, poets, and a librarian) and audience: in addition to the medical students like TP, we have opened the course virtually to nursing and Physician Assistant (PA) students at two other universities, Harvard and Yale.  \nAll graduate health professional students have a seminar of their choosing as a mandatory part of the university curricula. For those who choose this particular seminar (titled“Poetry & Medicine”), the first class creates some “ground rules” established by participants to create a supportive atmosphere conducive to meaningful dialogue. Our seminar operates on the principle of “brave space,” where students are encouraged to engage deeply and authentically and respect each others’ perspectives. Confidentiality is also vital—stories shared in the seminar are not discussed elsewhere. The final ground rule is to assume the validity of all responses to reading the poems, thereby understanding that there are no“correct” interpretations or right answers. This is inspired by one of the first pieces read in  \n* Tulsi R. Patel [tupatel@health.ucsd.edu](tupatel@health.ucsd.edu)  \n1 University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA  \n2 Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA  \nthe seminar, where poet Mark Doty remarked about the “pleasure when people talk about poems together as long as nobody is saying, ‘I know what this means and you don’t,’ [but rather] ‘The meaning is what we make right now out of what we read’”(Campo and Doty 2018) .  \nThe design of the course is straightforward: one session introducing the overall topic of poetry and medicine and discussing examples of “medical” and “non-medical” poems; two sessions led by local poets reading their work and the works of others; a session describing our experiences using poetry with patients (Segar et al. 2021); and finally a session with staff from the Poetry Foundation about the foundation’s activities, a conversation about the role of poetry in diverse settings such as medicine, and a brief student exercise in writing and sharing it amongst ourselves. With 15 poems as part of the curriculum, some examples of the medically themed ones are “The Chart” by Rafael Campo and “Cancer” by C. Dale Young. Our silent individual reflections followed by collective analyses of “The Chart,”for example, prompted a discussion on how poetry lends correcting voices to false narratives, adds dimensions to our understanding of patients’ inner lives, and illuminates health disparities. 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