Fundamentals of Critical Thinking and Clinical Decision-Making

Catalog description

This course provides students with foundational knowledge and skills for evidence-informed clinical decision-making, critical thinking, and health literacy. The course presents a variety of clinical scenarios that guide the exploration of forms of evidence from primary and secondary research and their utilization to inform daily clinical and policy decision-making. The course provides the necessary skills for the students to become independent thinkers, efficiently navigate sources of evidence to inform practice, identify strengths and limitations of a variety of research study designs, master results interpretation, and apply study results and clinical practice guideline recommendations to patient care. In addition, the students will learn about the principles of health literacy and acquire the skills to contribute to their patients’ ability to make health decisions informed by evidence. Students attend weekly interactive lectures, seminars and need to pass a final exam.