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ARE WE CREATIVE ?

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• The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines creative thinking as a new way of seeing or doing things, characterized by fluency (generating many ideas), flexibility (shifting perspective easily), and originality (conceiving of something new).

WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING• Merriam-Webster dictionary

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CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION GO TOGETHER

• Creativity is defined as Production of novel and useful ideas in any domain

• SEE ORDER IN DISORDER

• Innovation is defined as

• Successful implementation of creative ideas in any organisation

• Creativity of individuals and teams is the starting point for innovation

• Creativity and innovation are important

• Life is becoming increasingly complex, fast and changing at a faster pace

• Allows adaptation, maintain flexibility and is part of decision making

• Creativity requires originality and flexibility

• Contributes to physical and psychological health and optimal functioning

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WHERE WE STAND IN CREATIVITY IN INDIA

• Creativity became a popular word during the 21st century. There is a growing body of literature on the expanding social and economic impact of creativity. Many social thinkers assert that creativity is the most critical factor to sustain the role of the United States as the spearhead of scientific progress in the world. Surprisingly, although the teaching of creative thinking is widespread in business, there is very little teaching on creativity in medicine and academia. We really do not teach creativity to our students in medicine or other paramedical sciences in particular Nursing education. In the recent past many centres of out standing realised the importance in teaching creativity, in India.

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Thomas Edison

“I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”.

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WHAT IT MEANS OF CREATIVITY • Creativity involves the power to create and bring about change.

Creativity involves originality, imagination, inspiration, and inventiveness. The visionaries and pioneers in medicine have always looked for innovative solutions to improve the practice of medicine. Fortunately, creativity is not restricted to great artists, but it can be fostered by training, encouragement, and practice. Creativity is a biological process, and people can be trained to be open to environmental stimuli than can provide opportunities for imagination and ingenuity. Everyone has the power to be creative; while not everyone will paint a masterpiece or write a great novel, everyone can be curious, seek change and take risks.

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• We need creative thinking because our knowledge is limited. We do not know what we do not know, and also how much we do not know. In some respects we are like the blind man who grabbed a tiger by his tail

and declared: “A tiger is a rope.”

WHY WE NEED CREATIVE THINKING

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• Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the whole world.

ALBERT EINSTEIN THINKS..

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WE NEED CREATIVITY IN MEDICINE

• In medical practice, difficulties in making the correct diagnosis or prescribing the right treatment arise because we do not have all the necessary information. Yet we often do remarkably well, without systematically going over all the options, by applying “rules of thumb,” intuition, and other rapid cognition tricks, albeit subconsciously. This kind of thinking does not usually produce novel results.

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• As medicine is based on science, physicians are supposed to know physiology and mechanisms of disease, but also to manipulate nature for the benefit of the patient. Yet our knowledge of diseases and of drugs is limited. For this reason, medicine is really a combination of science and invention.

MEDICINE IS ALWAYS A CREATIVE

INNOVATION NEVER STATIC

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VIEWS OF TEACHERSAND TEACHING

Teachers can play a significant role in providing solutions to the problems facing education.

“Teachers are the masters of their own fate. The profession has to get it into its mind that it is its own job to solve the problems of the education system.”Sir Michael Barber, The Risk Takers, Guardian Education (23/05/2006)

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ARE WE AFRAID OF NEWER METHODS AND CREATIVITY DUE TO……

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FEAR

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Supporting factors Barriers

Leadership and support from top management

Culture, climate and identity

Resistance to change

Org culture and climate

Rewards and recognition

Competition and deregulation, need and diversity

Corporate structure

Workloads and Lack of skills

Supporting factors and barriers

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• The stages of creative process are quite consistent. First described at the beginning of the twentieth century by Graham Wallas, they consist of 1 preparation, 2 cultivation, 3 incubation 4 illumination, and 5 verification.

WHAT ARE STAGES OF INNOVATION IN MEDICINE

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Factors influencing how we should train doctors

• Demographic changes– Population health– Percent GPD spent on health– Legislature– Role of doctor

• Societal attitudes- patient expectations

• So where does this leave research?

• Are thinking about creativity in students

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Innovate Tomorrow’s Doctors,

• Reduction in factual overload• Increase in learning through

curiosity (PBL)• Emphasis on clinical skills

/communication skills• Understanding of Research

technologyDevelopment of the skills and

attitudes that befit a doctor

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Educational strategies in medical education

• Student-centred learning• Problem-based learning• Integrated teaching• Community-based education• Electives ( core curriculum+)• Systematic introduction to skills and

competencesHarden et al 1984

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FOUR SIGHT PREFERENCESMAKES BETTER DOCTORS AND TEACHERS

Clarifier

Ideator

Developer

Implementer

Diagnostic Thinking

Visionary Thinking

Evaluative Thinking

Tactical Thinking

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WE CAN NOT TEACH EVERYTHING ENCOURAGE SELF DIRECTED LEARNING

• Many traits associated with self direction…

• curiosity• creativity and motivation

• persistence and responsibility

• confidence and competence• reflectiveness and self awareness

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Research (making discoveries) is a creative activity, not a standard

process that can be prescribed, scored and

audited like the accounts of a company.

ENCOURAGE RESEARCH ORIENTED THINKING IN OUR MEDICAL GRADUATES

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Why do research?

• Enquiring mind - rigorous analysis of problems. Unchartered waters

• Can be basic science or clinical (both)

• Academic pathways established• Improves quality of care to

patients• International collaboration/friends• Highs and lows• FUN

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In a research and teaching environment we need to cultivate:

•Flair•Inspiration•Creativity•Achievement

EIGHT STEPS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR

• 1. Gain an Awareness and knowledge humor. It takes both a change in attitude and behavior.

• 2. Identify inappropriate humor. Avoid it.

• 3. Get to know what amuses you.

• 4. Do a humor history on yourself. DR.T.V.RAO MD 2508/04/2023

EIGHT STEPS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR, CONT.

• 5. Keep a file of humorous anecdotes stories, jokes cartoons.

• 6. You need to be somewhat of a risk taker.

• 7. Allow yourself to be silly.

• 8. Surround yourself with people who have a humorous, positive outlook, and most of all, learn to laugh at yourself.DR.T.V.RAO MD 2608/04/2023

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MANY MEDICAL COLLEGES ARE CATCHING UP

• Many medical colleges are catching on to the notion of medicine as a creative discipline and implementing classes and changing curriculums to cultivate novelty rather than penalize it. One notable program incorporates the structured teaching of fine arts concepts into its medical school coursework. This improves medical students’ visual inspection skills, thereby enhancing diagnostic ability and patient care

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• Creative thinking is something you can train your mind to do. Some people are actually born with creative thinking abilities, while others have to really work to let themselves be a creative thinker. However, it is possible for anyone to become a great creative thinker whether they were naturally born or they have to work at it

TRAIN YOUR MIND FOR CREATING A BETTER WORLD

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Many teachers loose interest in job and become stressful when they loose the innovation in teaching and creativity.

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• Teach our Medical students, as the Learning of Medicine is a innovation for creativity there is

less place for dogmatic ideas, A student is highly receptive to our Ideas makes your teaching

innovative and creative .

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• Once you have come up with the new idea, the next part is to make it workable and usable in everyday life. A good idea not only has to be original, it must also have a practical use.

MAKE YOUR IDEAS WORK

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• Thinking of new ideas really is a hard task, but it can also be very rewarding – especially if you happen across a totally new but simple idea which has a practical use for everybody.

OUR STUDENTS ARE GREAT CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR NATION

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"THE ART OF MEDICINE CONSISTS OF AMUSING THE

PATIENT WHILE NATURE CURES THE DISEASE."

Voltaire, French philosopher

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THANK YOU• I wish to thank all friends in India and Abroad for the

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