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Narrative Medicine Internship: Chronic Pain Project Spring ’26

December 05, 2025

CPP

The Chronic Pain Project is a small, local nonprofit organization created to make chronic pain visible through art and artwork. The chronic pain experience is captured both verbally and/or visually through sculpture, collage or any preferred visual medium. Global participants meet in regular remote art-making sessions and submit work and interviews about their experience of pain and making artwork.

Participants in the Chronic Pain Project can come from anywhere in the world. They submit pre-existing pieces of artwork or make a special piece for exhibition with CPP. Once the piece is created, the artist is interviewed remotely. These interviews are then available on the YouTube channel and by QR code at the exhibit itself so that viewers can not only see the art, but hear directly from the artist about their experience and why they created the piece.

Spring ’26 narrative medicine student intern will be reviewing, editing, cutting and compiling short artist statements from these interviews, of which CPP has 50+ hours of existing video. Intern will work from a template that has already been developed.

Learn more about this role and apply through workday from HERE!

Got any questions? email alexisr@lclark.edu

Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative Student Internship Spring ’26

Work With Purpose

Training the Healers of Tomorrow

Lewis & Clark students are finding real-world meaning in narrative medicine—an emerging field that blends writing, empathy, and health care. For graduates like Edie Tavel BA ’23, an internship experience led directly to a full-time role at Fora Health.

Spring 2026 HEAL Courses

For more information, you can view detailed descriptions of each course on WebAdvisor.

Uncovering Ethics in Everyday Data

The “Data For Good” course, created by Devin Fitzpatrick this spring, was featured in OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) in partnership with the Oregon nonprofit Growing Gardens. This piece is phenomenal in conveying the importance of humanities, and the implication of ethics in community work. Sophomore Roma Taylor shares her takeaways from this project, and the practical application of her real-world data experience.

This project was supported by the Mellon Foundation through the CCGH Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grant.