Daniele Sandra Yopa Demen, Emmanuel Nnanga Nga, Claude Stephan Ohandza, Hortense Gonsu Kamga, Olive Nathalie Kouamen Njikeu, Georges Nguefack-Tsague
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objective health sciences reasoning test hsrt validated instrument assess criticalthinking skills objective study determine hsrt results improved secondyear student pharmacists exposure explicit curriculum designed develop criticalthinking skills methods december 2012 hsrt administered students first year pharmacy school starting august 2013 students attended 16week laboratory curriculum using simulation formative feedback clinical reasoning teach criticalthinking skills following completion course hsrt readministered cohort students results students enrolled course 83 took hsrt following exclusion criteria 90 scores included statistical analysis exclusion criteria included students finish 60 questions took less 15 minutes complete test significant changes hsrt occurred overall scores subdomains deduction evaluation inference students completed criticalthinking curriculum conclusions significant improvement hsrt scores occurred following student immersion explicit criticalthinking curriculum hsrt useful detecting changes showing criticalthinking skills learned assessed relatively short period using standardized validated assessment tool like hsrt