The new clinician-scholars—dual training in medicine and humanities drives health research innovation

The new clinician-scholars—dual training in medicine and humanities drives health research innovation 
JAMA; by Vinayak Jain, MD; Kayla Zamanian, MS; Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD; 9/18/25 
Clinicians and researchers operate in an evolving landscape that demands innovative approaches to knowledge production and dissemination. Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are transforming health care, public trust in scientific institutions is deteriorating, and major centers of biomedical research are grappling with programmatic and funding disruptions. In response, a new paradigm of clinician-scholar must emerge—one equipped not only with scientific fluency, but also the conceptual, analytical, and structural tools of humanities and social sciences.