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Fostering Creativity & Humanism in Healthcare and Health Professions Education
Modern professional and institutional life tends to privileged rational, scientific ways of knowing and while an obvious necessity for our work, we know our decisions and actions are deeply shaped by human and cultural factors including creativity, self-awareness and empathy. Creativity - the process of coming up with original ideas and bringing them into the world - is necessary for innovation in research, teaching and learning. Breaking from the cognitive frames that drive our perception requires play and a tinkering mindset in order to generate more ideas and more diverse ideas more often. This module will help you develop “creative confidence”, a belief in your own abilities to come up with ideas and successfully bring about change.
By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. Manage your motivation and emotions to fuel creative behaviors
2. Formulate improvement through iteration and experimentation
3. Deduce and solve the correct problems hindering creative behaviors
Authors: Drs. Sean Park (Western University) & Sarrah Lal (McMaster University)
Format: Asynchronous, self-directed module
Length: Approx. 3 hours
Accreditation: 3.0 certified Mainpro+® credits and 3.0 MOC Section 1 hours
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