<i>&quot;emotional honesty&quot;</i><p>Emotional honesty is pretty simple. Will you speak up when necessary, even if it contradicts peers or the leader? What was the last time you told the boss, <i>&quot;this is a stupid idea Boss, change it, or this will happen&quot;</i> and then the boss does so without recrimination?  Remember the outcome, not ego matters.<p>As for the field of medicine, of which I know nothing about, in Melbourne (Aus), selection into health sciences is filtered by both self awareness, emotional maturity and smarts via both academic results, independent Uni examination (Monash) and panel interview. This the <i>&quot;spectrum&quot;</i> filter for those sufficiently smart enough to get through the academics, yet are more suited to research.<p>Could you teach MDs to program and work at google? Probably. Could you teach the clinical skills MDs require to make medical decisions on patients to Google SEs? Probably not.<p>Doctors work with people. Google engineers work with languages and data on silicon.