The Missing Ingredient: Creativity in Medicine with Dr. Anne Jacobson

In medical school school, we get really good at knowing the facts—at answering questions on rounds and picking A instead of B, C, or D. The parts of our brains that love learning new things flourish in med school, but other parts, the parts that are creative and abstract, seem to get pushed to the side. Creativity isn’t generally emphasized in medical training, but the more time we spend in this field, the more apparent it becomes that creativity is essential for dealing with the complex, scientific and human challenges of medicine. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Anne Jacobson, a family medicine physician and UWSMPH alumnus, whose piece published in JAMA, “The Highest Bidder,” inspired our four part series on creativity in medicine and medical training.