Personal Storytelling During Medical Training Aids Learning
Medical education has long relied on lectures, textbooks, and standardized patients to teach students clinical reasoning and patient care skills. In recent years, however, educators have increasingly recognized the power of personal storytelling as an effective teaching and learning tool. Storytelling — whether from patients, instructors, or students themselves — provides an emotional, narrative framework that helps learners better retain knowledge, develop empathy, and connect abstract medical concepts to real human experiences.