Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena

Background: Creativity is a highly valued quality in different fields. Despite this, it is rarely included in the curricula of medical careers. Aim: To assess creative thinking among undergraduate medical students. Material and Methods: Sixty-seven students aged 18 to 31 years (45% women) from th...

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Autores principales: Castro A.,Henry, Ortega B.,Javiera, Villarroel L.,Javier, Contreras S.,Carla
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Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2019
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720190003003722019-07-17Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilenaCastro A.,HenryOrtega B.,JavieraVillarroel L.,JavierContreras S.,Carla Creativity Curriculum Learning Students, Medical Thinking Background: Creativity is a highly valued quality in different fields. Despite this, it is rarely included in the curricula of medical careers. Aim: To assess creative thinking among undergraduate medical students. Material and Methods: Sixty-seven students aged 18 to 31 years (45% women) from the first (16), third (26) and seventh year (25) of medical school answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT). Results: Median creativity index according to age was in percentile 52 (range 2-99). Percentiles for fluency, originality, elaboration, abstraction of titles and resistance for premature closure were 31, 32, 79, 53 and 17 respectively. There were no significant differences between students of different levels (p = 0.73). Conclusions: In this group of students, there is a high performance in elaboration and a low score in Resistance to premature closure.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.147 n.3 20192019-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872019000300372es10.4067/S0034-98872019000300372
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Creativity
Curriculum
Learning
Students, Medical
Thinking
spellingShingle Creativity
Curriculum
Learning
Students, Medical
Thinking
Castro A.,Henry
Ortega B.,Javiera
Villarroel L.,Javier
Contreras S.,Carla
Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena
description Background: Creativity is a highly valued quality in different fields. Despite this, it is rarely included in the curricula of medical careers. Aim: To assess creative thinking among undergraduate medical students. Material and Methods: Sixty-seven students aged 18 to 31 years (45% women) from the first (16), third (26) and seventh year (25) of medical school answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT). Results: Median creativity index according to age was in percentile 52 (range 2-99). Percentiles for fluency, originality, elaboration, abstraction of titles and resistance for premature closure were 31, 32, 79, 53 and 17 respectively. There were no significant differences between students of different levels (p = 0.73). Conclusions: In this group of students, there is a high performance in elaboration and a low score in Resistance to premature closure.
author Castro A.,Henry
Ortega B.,Javiera
Villarroel L.,Javier
Contreras S.,Carla
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Ortega B.,Javiera
Villarroel L.,Javier
Contreras S.,Carla
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title Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena
title_short Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena
title_full Determinación de pensamiento creativo en estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena
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