Matthew G Kaye, Hassan A Khan, Gregory D Gudleski, Yan Yatsynovich, Susan P Graham, Alysia V Kwiatkowski
Implementation of a longitudinal, near-peer ECG didactic curriculum in an internal medicine residency program and impact on ECG interpretation skills
BMC medical education
study measured change critical thinking skills dental students educated problembased learning pbl pedagogical method quantitative analysis focused measuring students critical thinking skills achievement first third years dental education university southern california nonexperimental evaluation based volunteer sample ninetyeight dental students completed demographicsacademic questionnaire psychometric assessment known health sciences reasoning test hsrt hsrt produced overall critical thinking skills score additionally hsrt generated five subscale scores analysis inference evaluation deductive reasoning inductive reasoning results study concluded students showed continuous significant incremental improvement overall critical thinking skills score achievement pblbased dental education except inductive reasoning score result consistent four subscale scores moreover performing statistical adjustment total score subscale scores significant statistical differences found among three student groups however results study found aspects critical thinking achievements differed categories gender race english first language education level