How the Principles of Improvisational Theater Can Set Your Educational Potential Free

• Published in: Academic psychiatry Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 953 - 955
• Main Author: Lewis, A. Lee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-12-2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult learning; Adults; Andragogy; Cooperation; Creative Activities; Education, Medical - methods; Faculty, Medical; Failure; Feature: Perspective; Humans; Improvisation; Learning Theories; Medical Education; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Principles; Psychiatry; Psychiatry - education; Students; Supervision; Teacher Effectiveness; Teachers; Teaching; Trainees; Trust (Psychology); Improvisational Theater; Teachable Moment; Psychiatric Training; Wrong Answer; Primary Company
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0595-y

Because I come from a long line of successful teachers, and was a teacher myself before entering medical school, it was a natural transition for me to move from training into medical education when I finished my psychiatric training at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). [...]I have found my improvisational training to be invaluable to me as a teacher. When we are forced to make decisions in life, our brains take all of the information and resources available to it in that moment, categorize it, analyze it, and then use it in an attempt to create the best possible outcome. No experience in the past is ever going to mean more than it already has, and there is nothing in the future that effects the power of THIS moment.