In view of the reduced amount of researches relating creativity and the Brazilian university context, this work aims to characterize the teachers who facilitate and the ones who inhibit creativity according to the opinion of freshmen in Biomedicine (N=117) from private universities in the northeastern area of São Paulo state. It uses, as instrument, a two-question questionnaire focusing on the teacher’s characteristics that facilitate or inhibit the students’ creativity. The answers were assessed by categories and by the co-relation of two judges’ analyses. The data were quantitatively approached (descriptive calculus and Chi-square test). The creativity facilitating characteristics were associated to the teachers’ professional skills and the inhibiting ones refer to the teachers’ relationship with students.
creativity; undergraduates; teacher