Creativity and Research Education in the Clinical Sciences : Effect of Graduate Medical Education on the Divergent Thinking and Problem Finding Abilities of Resident Physicians

ISBN-13: 9783639117400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 60 str.

Jennifer K. Holtz

Opis

Drawing from the fields of cognitive psychology, adult education and medical education, the research presented here explores the effects of graduate medical education on learners' abilities to engage the cognitive constructs of problem finding and divergent thinking, aspects of creativity posited to be necessary for successful research behaviors. Learning that an individual progressing through the medical education process may suppress both divergent thinking and problem finding is of serious concern in its implication for the development of physician scientists. Because both innovative and traditional medical educators acknowledge the need for physician scientists, suppression of behaviors conducive to research should be unacceptable to both.

O autorze

Dr. Holtz is Assistant Professor at DePaul University, Chicago.
Her research focuses on the actual process of research and
characteristics of researchers, how elements of creativity
affect teaching and learning in the sciences, and the
implications of brain research to science learning. Her Ph.D. is
from Kansas State University.