As co-convener to PATH3206, a Cancer pathology course for Medical Science students with 70-100 enrolments per year, I led the revamping of its content in 2017 to align with novel concepts in medical oncology. The course is taught with lectures, tutorials and practical classes. Student feedback on the practical classes of the previous version of the course was that they are too focussed on histology and had limited value for their career ambitions. Being receptive to this feedback, I re-designed all practical classes using patient narratives to demonstrate real-world applications of knowledge. Students now follow the story of three patients from diagnosis of cancer to death / recovery (in six practicals, each of two hours duration) to learn cancer related content in seven different themes; clinical diagnosis, histology, biostatistics, treatment, screening, research ethics and terminal events. Student feedback was assessed in several ways; with a custom-made questionnaire under UNSW Ethics approval, via meetings with student representatives and with myExperience feedback for the course. Over 90% of students agreed that narrative based teaching in practical classes improved their learning experience and enabled better retention of content. The overall satisfaction with the course improved from 79.2% in 2017 (which did not have narrative based practical classes) to 93.5% in 2018 and 100% in 2019.  Twenty-four students out of 57 (42%) providing qualitative feedback in 2018 myexperience survey mentioned practical classes as one of the best features of the course. This innovation was presented at UNSW Learning and Teaching Forum in 2018 and was published in Medical Science Educator.