Improvisation for Doctors: How Performance Games Teach Better Communication

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

"Medical improv" is an emerging subset of comedic performance art using improvisational theater principles and training techniques to improve communication, cognition, and teamwork among health care professionals.

Joining Host Dr. Michael Greenberg is Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, Improvisation Program Director at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. They talk about how the fundamentals of improv can be applied to medical practices.