Friday Dec 16, 2022

Hitting the Reset Button on Healthcare

“We all learn in different ways. And I feel like people are more likely to remember things when they're having fun and when they're engaged with the material,” shares Keshia Bradford, MPA. Keshia is a doctoral candidate in leadership at Creighton University. She joined Doctors for America in May of 2022 after spending 9 years as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Health Center Association of Nebraska. She is seeking to make changes in healthcare through her research and innovative learning techniques that give healthcare professionals permission and space to play and be creative.

With Doctors for America, Keshia is excited to use her larger platform to promote real change. On the monthly action event calls, she builds in activities and fun themes that help inspire an environment of play. These activities give people an opportunity to take what they have just learned on the call and immediately apply it. She began these creative training sessions at her prior job where she would incorporate learning and playful themes like Mission Impossible with matching music, activities, and snacks. By infusing energy, creativity, and fun into the environment, healthcare professionals have an opportunity to shake off their serious personas, learn by doing, reduce overall stress, and enter a flow state.

It’s no secret that healthcare in America needs serious changes. It is very fragmented and there are so many areas for improvement that require everyone in healthcare to work together to make the necessary changes. There’s no reason that working toward this common goal can’t also be fun along the way. Learn more about how to incorporate fun into healthcare training spaces and how opening up to being a little silly can actually increase learning, reduce stress, and improve overall engagement.

Quotes

• “We can all move in the same direction together and have a little fun. There's no reason why we can't have a little fun.” (18:24-18:33 | Keshia)

• “We all learn in different ways. And I feel like people are more likely to remember things when they're having fun and when they're engaged with the material. And so during the times that I would do training, I would also build in activities that were indicative of the work that they did, but then also played on a fun theme.” (24:31-24:58 | Keshia)

• “We have monthly calls where we have action event calls. And so these are opportunities for people to join, learn about a topic, and then be able to take what they learned and apply it right away.” (27:06-27:19 | Keshia)

Links

Connect with Keshia Bradford:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ultravise

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keshia-bradford-mpa-3aa9a020/

Doctors for America: https://doctorsforamerica.org/

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