Marcia Day Childress is Associate Professor of Medical Education and directs the Program in Humanities within the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She teaches medical school courses in Literature and Medicine, Cells to Society, and Social Issues in Medicine, and directs senior medical students' independent research in humanities and the arts. Furthermore she teaches an upper-level undergraduate course, Literature and Medicine-Narratives of Illness and Doctoring, in the Department of English of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Her research interests include narrative in medicine, reflective education and the moral formation of the physician, and uses of literature and the visual arts in medical education and preparation for professional life. She writes on literature and the role of narrative and the arts in medicine, ethics, medical education, and end-of-life care. Her most recent publications focus on the short plays of Samuel Beckett, the poetry of Donald Hall, teaching literature with professional students, and teaching Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway to physicians. 

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