![]() If I believe I'm creative, I welcome change. Research: People who see creativity as a critical skill also see industry disruption as an opportunity. Research: Students who learn to draw make more observations in diagnosis. Research: Doctors who participate in the humanities are more resistant to burnout. In fact, teaching medical students to be robots is a pathway to burnout, or to simply dropping out of the profession. It turns out that teaching doctors to be un-creative is bad for the doctor, bad for her or his practice, bad for the patient. Why? Why should my doctor be creative? Isn't that the last thing I want? Don't I want a doctor who is a risk-averse robot? No, you don't. no more puns) from a new thought - that creativity is an essential skill for doctors. Today the old partnership of art and anatomy comes back to life (I know. Sadly, we've focused medical students on being memorization machines, not creative artists. No joke! Historically, that would have been normal. ![]() So an artist and an anatomist went into a medical school classroom. "Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?" (Labrinth)
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