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Curricular Design / Teaching Strategies

Teachers' Seminar: Let’s Get Critical: Cultivating Critical Thinking Skills to Stimulate Clinical Reasoning in the Large Classroom

Saturday, July 20, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
Location: Sheraton: Republic Ballroom AB
CE: 0.75

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
  • Describe critical thinking and clinical reasoning and discuss how these are measured and developed among learners in real-world healthcare scenarios.
  • Demonstrate the application of real-world debate in large classrooms as an active strategy for fostering critical thinking skills.
  • Apply a scaffolding strategy to support learners’ development of clinical reasoning on a topic.
Clinical reasoning (CR) is the essential core competency of pharmacists and is based on the ability to apply critical thinking (CT) to a clinical domain. While the most fertile ground for developing CR is in the experiential domain, early introduction and experience in CR can occur in the classroom. This session will describe the constructs of CT and CR, review the evidence on how CR develops, and provide hands-on demonstrations of two approaches to stimulate development of CT/CR in large group settings.