Elizabeth Fleming, MD

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Dr. Elizabeth Fleming is an Assistant Professor (CHS) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She received her medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed her residency at the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Verona clinic. In her clinical practice she cares for patients through all phases of life. Her academic interests center around narrative medicine, patient-physician relationship, and clinician wellness, with a particular focus on integrating patient narrative into the medical record and supporting identity formation in medical trainees. She teaches the Healer’s Art course, serves as a Longitudinal Teacher/Coach for medical students and has developed narrative medicine curriculum for medical students, residents, and fellows that centers around the imposter phenomenon, medical error, and developing uncertainty tolerance. Her narrative essays have been published in Family Medicine and JAMA. Outside of work, she is an avid reader and loves spending time outside with her husband and three children.