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<\/a>Thinking Design:\n<\/b>Models and Methods for Patient Centered & Student Centered Practices
\n<\/i>For Healthcare Professionals, Educators & Students
\n10 October 2015 \u2022 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Introductory Training\u00a0for St Paul\u2019s Hospital & \u00a0<\/b>St. Pauls Millennium Medical College Introduction and Background Thinking Design training uses the Thinking Design <\/i>research based methods that include:<\/p>\n Thinking Design methods are lifelong skills used for problem solving individually and collaboratively in the whole organization including leaders, professional and staff members.<\/p>\n To live fulfilling lives, people will need to develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to shape the lives they can imagine for themselves and their families. The thinking tools are instrumental in knowing oneself, connecting with others, and exploring pathways of successful collaborations supporting a healthy and success organization.<\/p>\n Training Methodology: Thinking Maps\u00ae (Visual Tools)
\n<\/b>Attendees\u00a0included provost, vice provost and all key heads of departments
\n<\/em>The\u00a0St. Paul’s Medical College and Hospital professional development was a full day participant centered <\/a>training with a focus on implementing Thinking Design throughout the hospital and medical college with a goal of a patient centered approach (hospital) and student centered learning (medical college).<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Thinking Design is a systems approach that uses practical research based methods to assure a healthy organization that supports and grows effective communication with and between leadership and the whole organization. It uses tools that smartly communicate ideas within and outside organization to create collaborations. It honors and understands the abilities and gifts of all members of an organization.<\/a><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>Designing a Thinking Environment \u2014 how the physical space is organized & resources are used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>Thinking Designs Guide<\/strong>
\n<\/b>The Thinking Design training is participant-centered learning with hands-on application using content that is relevant to the participants. The key pathway of the training is \u201cThinking Maps\u201d which is a cognitive visual mapping language providing a concrete foundation to organize one\u2019s thinking, understand each other\u2019s thinking and each other\u2019s perspectives (frame of reference). This maximizes an organization\u2019s capacity to think, understand, and perform effectively to succeed individually as well as collaboratively.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Thinking Maps are consistent visual patterns linked directly to eight specific thought processes. By visualizing our thinking, we create concrete images of abstract thoughts. These patterns help the whole organization reach higher levels of critical and creative thinking individually and collaboratively. Thinking Maps establish a consistent language for thinking and problem solving.
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