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Apr 19, 2024
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IHS 4447 - Critical Thinking and Reasoning in Clinical Problem Solving
In this course, the critical thinking process is made explicit by breaking the process into steps necessary to engage in critical thinking. These steps include reasoning through interpretation, evaluation, and metacognition. Overall, the relevance of critical thinking to models of evidence-based practice (EBP) used in clinical health professions is emphasized.
Requisites: Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to assess one’s own critical thinking practices as an essential component of professional accountability and problem solving in clinical practice.
- Students will be able to demonstrate the steps in evaluation.
- Students will be able to demonstrate the steps in interpretation.
- Students will be able to describe how thinking dispositions (i.e., open-mindedness, fairmindedness, reflectiveness, and counterfactual thinking) are moderators of critical thinking.
- Students will be able to explain how critical thinking is relevant to evidence-based practice.
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