Klasko based his new curriculum in part on a $1.5 million grant he received to study what makes doctors different from everybody else. He learned that the way we select and educate physicians is akin to joining a cult. He identified four fundamental traits that get ingrained early: a competitive bias, an autonomy bias, a hierarchy bias, and a noncreativity bias. He learned that the profession attracts highly creative team players but that we ingrain in them the qualities of focus, discipline, and rigidity.
