PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Douglas R. Oyler
AU  - Frank Romanelli
TI  - The Fact of Ignorance<br/>Revisiting the Socratic Method as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking
AID  - 10.5688/ajpe787144
DP  - 2014 Sep 15
TA  - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
PG  - 144
VI  - 78
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.ajpe.org/content/78/7/144.short
4100  - http://www.ajpe.org/content/78/7/144.full
SO  - Am J Pharm Educ2014 Sep 15; 78
AB  - Critical thinking, while highly valued as an ability of health care providers, remains a skill that many educators find difficult to teach. This review provides an analysis examining why current methods of teaching critical thinking to health care students (primarily medical and pharmacy students) often fail and describes a premise and potential utility of the Socratic method as a tool to teach critical thinking in health care education.