Overview

The Narrative Medicine at Columbia University students typically take courses on Columbia’s New York City Morningside campus, and a small number of courses are offered with online synchronous instruction.

The full-time programme typically takes two terms to complete, plus the summer. The part-time option takes 2–6 years to complete and can be done while working full-time. Intake offered in fall.

In This Master’s Programme, You Will…

Build an interdisciplinary foundation in narrative understanding, the illness experience, and the tools of close reading and writing.

Focus on applying narrative skills in fields like genetics, social justice advocacy, and palliative care.

Learn how to bring your core values and sense of purpose to a healthcare career.

Become a better writer and communicator.

Learn how to use narrative skills to improve patient care and outcomes.

Explore core social justice issues in healthcare and address systemic inequities.

Gain a toolbox of new strategies to employ to improve healthcare.

Address the need of patients and caregivers to be heard and valued

Harness the power of narrative to change the ways we care for those most in need.

As Alumni

Graduates will be positioned to lead narrative medicine programmes in healthcare professions schools and clinical settings, developing, implementing, and evaluating the impact of these on clinical practice and quality of care.

As programme directors, division heads, department chairs, and senior administrators, they will be equipped with skills to generate narrative work, supervise practitioners, and uphold and promote standards for intellectual, clinical, and research work of narrative medicine.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Close Reading: Giving and Receiving Accounts of Self

Applied Writing in the Narrative Medicine Context and Beyond

Illness and Disability Narratives: Embodiment, Community, Activism

Self and Other in the Clinical Encounter

Qualitative Methods & Research

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-06-01 00:00:00 , National
- Apply before 2027-03-15 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

38 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Manhattan, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

U.S. bachelor’s degree or international equivalent.

If your post-secondary credentials are from an institution outside the United States, the Office of Admissions requires you to submit all post-secondary credentials (undergraduate and graduate) to World Education Services, Inc. (WES), a third-party verification agency for a course-by-course evaluation for admission consideration.

The Office of Admissions will use the credential evaluation provided by WES to determine if your undergraduate degree is the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree.

Students must have advanced analytical writing skills and be comfortable with rapid and idiomatic spoken English.

Demonstrable evidence of promise in the field of narrative medicine.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

92264 USD / year

≈ 92264 USD / year
Out-of-State

92264 USD / year

≈ 92264 USD / year
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In-State

92264 USD / year

≈ 92264 USD / year

Living costs

Manhattan

United States

2638 - 5751 USD / month

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In This Master’s Programme, You Will…

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Programme Structure

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