Having attended the first National Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford, 1995), one of us actually has the T-shirt declaring his critical appraisal credentials. But although trained in clinical epidemiology, both before and since the workshop, the same person continues daily to doubt his critical thinking skills. The profusion of miniguides and short courses in Critical Appraisa...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of online, flipped, and in-class critical thinking teaching on skills dispositions university students. Pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design was employed in this that has three experimental groups one group. In first group, conducted fully online. second flipped classroom approach while thinking. third face-to-face classes. Watson-G...

INTRODUCTION Recent publications indicate that critical thinking should be an integral part of respiratory care education. However, we know very little about critical thinking in the context of respiratory care. The critical thinking abilities and decision-making characteristics of practicing respiratory therapists have not been studied. PURPOSE Identify and describe the critical thinking ski...

This paper addressed the need for critical thinking as an appropriate learning outcome for the majority of higher education classes. The paper reviewed critical thinking from a multi-disciplined perspective. A brief review of the history of critical thinking preceded a short discussion of the need. The main body of the paper addressed the reasons for a lack of critical thinking in today's class...

Abstract The present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. At first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing Nelson test. Then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. T...

Abstract The present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. At first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing Nelson test. Then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. T...

The development of critical thinking, the ability to solve problems by assessing evidence using valid inferences, abstractions, and generalizations, is one of the global goals advocated by most medical schools. This study determined changes in critical thinking skills between entry and near the end of the third year of medical school, assessed the predictive ability of a test of critical thinki...

UNLABELLED Chiropractic has traditionally regarded itself a wellness profession. As wellness care is postulated to play a central role in the future growth of chiropractic, the development of a wellness ethos acceptable within conventional health care is desirable. This paper describes a unit which prepares chiropractic students for the role of "wellness coaches". Emphasis is placed on providin...