IMPROVing Your Odds for Professional Success

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In this elective course, applied improvisation (AI) is taught as an instructional strategy. AI adapts the concepts of improvisational theater to teach complex skills so that they can be applied in other contexts, such as veterinary practice, and teaches participants to accept uncertainty and ambiguity as the conditions in which they must learn and work. Most importantly, this kind of learning experience cultivates an other-oriented sensibility, geared toward empathy and collaboration. Overall, the principles and practices of AI support the basic tenets of relationship-centered care in veterinary medicine, such as partnership and empathic connection with other people. Prerequisites None