Learning from stories of experience : using narrative as pedagogy to understand racial and ethnic experiences in medicine

"Learning Through Stories of Experience" is about using first-person experiences, stories, or narratives as a pedagogical strategy from Writing Studies to teach cultural competence in the field of Medicine. The dissertation is a descriptive account of a reflective writing seminar experience, teaching future practitioners about cultural competence. My work, the focus of this study, is a beginning of "how", a pedagogical approach, can work to teach future practitioners about developing cultural competence. More specifically, I think my work helps address Medicine's call to bring practitioners to self-awareness and acknowledgment of personal biases that may impede their practice of medicine with cultural competence." -- Abstract.