But first, what is creativity?
Let's start with Health professionals and creativity
Siddiqui (2008) has done some work with the health professions and creativity and she has some definitions of creativity in her paper (2008):
1. Amabile (1996) - 'a set of skills and attitudes needed in generating ideas and
products that are relatively novel, high in quality and appropriate to task in hand. '
2. Beghetto (2005) - creativity requires 'both novelty and usefulness'
3. Costello (2007) - creativity requires a 'future orientation' and requires problem solving ability.
4.'Noller (cited in Isaksen, Dorval, & Treffinger, 1994) - 3 parameters for creativity: knowledge, imagination and evaluation. '
5. ' A comprehensive definition of creativity can then be ‘the ability to make something new, whether a thought, or idea, an object, a product or a process, a work of art or performance, or an interpretation (Morrison and Johnston 2006). '
Source:
Siddiqui, Zarrin S, (2008). Creativity in higher education: Great expectations. 2nd International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education, 1st – 3rd December, 2008, Lahore - Pakistan, http://uwa.academia.edu/ZarrinSiddiqui/Papers/78584/Creativity-in-higher-education-great-expectation
