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Historically, qualitative methods have been influenced by critical theory and have shared its constructivist epistemology and orientation towards social justice. It can be challenging to teach such critical qualitative inquiry to healthcare professionals because its underlying philosophy can seem at odds with the objectivist biological perspective emphasized in medical education. This is unfortunate because several social inequities are perpetuated by modern healthcare systems and critical qualitative inquiry is essential to the project of addressing them. This article argues that Norman Denzin’s interpretive autoethnography is a promising method through which educators could introduce healthcare professionals to critical qualitative inquiry. In this method, the author uses the craft of writing creatively about their personal experiences as a tool for cultural interpretation and social justice activism. Such a creative analytic practice might seem alien to many medical professionals. On the other hand, the idea of analyzing their own experiences in detail is likely to feel familiar to them because of the prominence of reflective writing in healthcare professional development practice. This familiarity might make interpretive autoethnography accessible to healthcare professionals and practicing the method could help them to appreciate the value of interpretive writing as a way of investigating sociocultural meaning and promoting just change.  \nKeywords: Autoethnography, creative analytic practices, medical education, qualitative research , reflective writing  \n* [john.taylor@swast. nhs.uk](john.taylor@swast. nhs.uk)  \nIntroduction  \nQualitative research methods are increasingly recognized as valuable in medicine, though quantitative studies are still much more numerous in the field (Lin et al. , 2023) . As educators have pointed out, the fact that healthcare professionals and researchers tend to be most comfortable with the realist, objectivist epistemology on which the biomedical sciences are based has made it challenging to establish the credibility of qualitative inquiry in the health sciences (Eakin & Mykhalovskiy, 2005) . This makes it difficult to teach them to engage with other ways of knowing, such as the socially critical, constructivist theories that underpin qualitative inquiry (Eakin, 2015; Eakin & Mykhalovskiy, 2005) . This is problematic because modern Western healthcare systems perpetuate many systemic inequalities, including those relating to gender (Ekberg & Ekberg, 2017), ethnicity (Chauhan et al. , 2020), sexuality (MedinaMartinez et al. , 2021), age (Mikton et al. , 2021), and disability (Swenor, 2021), all of which demand to be challenged. Properly critical qualitative inquiry is essential to the project of addressing these injustices.  \nIn this article, I will argue that Norman Denzin’s (2014) interpretive autoethnography is a promising method through which healthcare professionals could be introduced to qualitative inquiry. This method starts with the identification of significant events in the researcher’s life that warrant further analysis. Many healthcare professionals are comfortable with this because of their experience with reflective writing , and this has the potential to make interpretive autoethnography seem accessible to them. 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