Thinking critically about critical thinking: ability, disposition or both?

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to determine the extent to which clinician-educators agree on definitions of critical thinking and to determine whether their descriptions of critical thinking in clinical practice are consistent with these definitions. METHODS:Ninety-seven medical educators at five medical schools were surveyed. Respondents were asked to define critical thinking, to describe a clinical scenario in which critical thinking would be important, and to state the actions of a clinician in that situation who was thinking critically and those of another who was not. Qualitative content analysis was conducted to identify patterns and themes. RESULTS:The definitions mostly described critical thinking as a process or an ability; a minority of respondents described it as a personal disposition. In the scenarios, however, the majority of the actions manifesting an absence of critical thinking resulted from heuristic thinking and a lack of cognitive effort, consistent with a dispositional approach, rather than a lack of ability to analyse or synthesise. CONCLUSIONS:If we are to foster critical thinking among medical students, we must reconcile the way it is defined with the manner in which clinician-educators describe critical thinking--and its absence--in action. Such a reconciliation would include consideration of clinicians' sensitivity to complexity and their inclination to exert cognitive effort, in addition to their ability to master material and process information.

journal_name

Med Educ

journal_title

Medical education

authors

Krupat E,Sprague JM,Wolpaw D,Haidet P,Hatem D,O'Brien B

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03910.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-06-01 00:00:00

pages

625-35

issue

6

eissn

0308-0110

issn

1365-2923

journal_volume

45

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