The Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will host a three-day conference, “The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine,” April 29-May 1 on the UI campus.

The conference focuses on the links between creative writing and medical education and patient care, and offers skill-building sessions on writing, editing, and publishing creative work. The conference is open to health care providers, students, writers, scholars, publishers, and anyone else with an interest in creative or reflective writing and medicine.

Registration is required for all concurrent conference sessions and meals, but keynote addresses and plenary sessions are free and open to the public. Conference details, event locations and registration are available online at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/examinedlife/index.htm.

In addition to the Carver College of Medicine, conference sponsors include the Department of Pathology; the Program in Bioethics and Humanities; the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry; the International Writing Program; the UI Press; Central College in Pella, Iowa; MidWestOne Bank; Wild Rose Books at UI Hospitals and Clinics; and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Questions may be directed to Margaret LeMay-Lewis, conference director, margaret-lemay-lewis@uiowa.edu; 319 335 8051.