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determine whether three commonly used measures critical thinking correlate academic success medical professionals training search englishlanguage articles 1980 2011 used medline embase scopus cochrane library ovid proquest dissertations health psychosocial instruments psychinfo references included articles studies comparing critical thinking academic success among medical professionals included two authors performed study selection independently disagreement resolved consensus two authors independently abstracted data study characteristics quality outcomes disagreement resolved third author critical thinking tests studied california critical thinking skills test cctst california critical thinking disposition inventory cctdi watsonglaser critical thinking appraisal correlation coefficients pooled metaanalysis search identified 557 studies 52 met inclusion systematic review 41 metaanalyzed critical thinking positively correlated academic success r031 95 confidence intervals ci 026 035 moderate statistical heterogeneity i67 subgroup analysis student type statistical significance correlation although bias likely due low numbers student types direct comparison using studies employed two critical thinking tests cctdi r023 95 ci 015 030 significantly inferior p001 cctst r039 95 ci 033 045 critical thinking moderately correlated academic success medical professionals training cctdi inferior cctst correlating academic success