Graduates of the Narrative Medicine program will be positioned to lead narrative medicine programs in medical schools and hospitals. As program directors, division heads, department chairs, and senior administrators, they can generate narrative work and supervise practitioners, and uphold and promote standards for intellectual, clinical, and research work of narrative medicine. For others who combine the M.S. in Narrative Medicine with medical or nursing degrees, this degree will enable them to evolve into clinicians who understand and promote the value of narrative to clinical competence, who will go into their own advanced training—internships, residencies, fellowships—equipped to be a different kind of caregiver. For students from other disciplines, such as literature, rhetoric, creative writing, anthropology, gender studies, oral history, religious studies, this intensive immersion in clinical work provides the opportunity to be part of a theory/practice experience that enriches their own scholarly and teaching work, and will be helpful in obtaining jobs in health care.