RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Fact of Ignorance<br/>Revisiting the Socratic Method as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking
JF American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
JO Am J Pharm Educ
FD American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
SP 144
DO 10.5688/ajpe787144
VO 78
IS 7
A1 Douglas R. Oyler
A1 Frank Romanelli
YR 2014
UL http://www.ajpe.org/content/78/7/144.abstract
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.