Phillip Roth, from his book Everyman: "Amateurs look for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

These are interesting:

check out his audio clips on improvisation and balancing the two huge commitments of a medical career and jazz musician:

www.dennyzeitlin.com

a jazz pianist / pyschiatrist at ucsf; amazing-would love to talk to him one day, maybe I'll call his nurse to setup an appointment; found this through:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asK_97KCbjY&mode=related&search=

an amazing video, released on youtube on August 26th, 2006

Also, found some interesting student stories from some first year students at UCSF; so these are the types of students that they are interested in....

http://medschool.ucsf.edu/news/features/education/20051212_StudentModesti.aspx

all of them very different, very interesting; one of them a 'rockstar' jazz guitarist for a number of years before applying to med school etc... interesting...should read through these again as time permits and as soon as I start thinking about applying to schools.