Article: "No joke: The serious role of improv in medicine"

"Want to be a better doctor? Try talking into a banana, muttering gibberish, and tossing balls at colleagues. Medical improv transforms goofy theater games into serious skills like empathy, teamwork, and super-quick thinking."

An article by Sarah Mahoney published on the AAMCNEWS website highlights the numerous benefits that medical improv exercises have on medical students' and physicians' abilities to communicate with patients and other healthcare professionals.

Ajay Paul Singh, a second-year student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, said the exercise "opened my eyes, in a light-hearted way, to see how often we misunderstood people. It was fun and humbling at the same time."

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