JOHANNA SHAPIRO, PHD, HOWARD STEIN, PHD
Medical educators and researchers have studied poetry by medical students as a potential source of information about the socialization process in medical education and students’ views about salient clinical issues. One previously uninvestigated area is the examination of medical student poetry for insights into how students experience and understand the professional relational systems in which they participate during their training. In this article, the authors examine a series of poems written by medical students for insights into the students’ relationships with patients, patients’ families, and supervisors.