Drawing from the fields of cognitive psychology, adult education and medical education, the research presented here explores the effects of graduate medical education on learners' abilities to engage the cognitive constructs of problem finding and divergent thinking, aspects of creativity posited to be necessary for successful research behaviors. Learning that an individual progressing through the medical education process may suppress both divergent thinking and problem finding is of serious concern in its implication for the development of physician scientists. Because both innovative and traditional medical educators acknowledge the need for physician scientists, suppression of behaviors conducive to research should be unacceptable to both.

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