DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND TRAINING IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS

This article presents a research carried out at a hospital in northern Italy where digital storytelling (DST) was used for health personnel training. A digital story is a short story narrated in the first person using multiple languages: images, music, sound and film sequences. This narrative methodology was chosen to achieve three main objectives: 1) encourage deep reflection and emotional mediation by the use of more expressive codes; 2) build a collection of digital stories produced in narrative workshops for training in health care; 3) reduce the distance between care settings and care users through the online publication of digital stories. The project phases and the results achieved are discussed.