Thank you everyone for your suggestions and comments! I will look into all the book suggestions. I have read Stuart Sutherland's book which was fascinating. 

When I meant critical thinking, I meant thinking about every topic and not just health or medicine. How can we convey the importance of critical thinking, how to use critical thinking and how to apply it in your life?

I teach Exercise Physiology. I try to give them examples of the mistakes we made in medicine and how an EBM approach evolved. I try to explain what is the problem with anecdotes and the biases and heuristics we use to make decisions. 

What favorite examples or strategies do you use to really make them understand the power of critical thinking in in walks of your life? 

And Amy when I compared  EBM to a checklist, I was never meaning to talk down EBM. In fact, I was merely suggesting that EBM is simply critical thinking at its best. 

Thank you everyone,
Anoop :)

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Santaguida, Lina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello,

Below are some citations by Dr. Milos Jenicek related to critical thinking in medicine. He adds to our current understanding of evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning. He has published a great deal about critical thinking in medicine and I have had the privilege of hearing him lecture on this topic at McMaster University.

 Below is a list of some of Dr. Jenicke's citations in pubmed (most recent) and then some books and mongraphs relating to critical thinking.

Some recent citations:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26032666

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21169920


Books and Monographs

2012: Jenicek M. A Primer on Clinical Experience in Medicine. Reasoning, Decision Making, and Communication in Health Sciences. Boca Raton, London and New York: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis/ Productivity Press, 2013 (released August 14, 2012). (326 pages)    ISBN: 978-1-4665-1558-1

2008  Jenicek M. Teaching critical thinking in medicine: A journey back to the future. Pp. 163-178 in: Facione N, Facione PA. Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning in the Health Sciences. An International Multidisciplinary Anthology. Milbrae, CA: California Academic Press LLC, 2008.

2005:  Jenicek M, Hitchcock DL. Evidence-Based Practice. Logic and Critical Thinking in Medicine. Chicago: American Medical Association (AMA Press), 2005. (302 pages)
                  ISBN : 1-57947-626-0

2006:  Jenicek M. A Physician's Self-Paced Guide to Critical Thinking. Chicago: American Medical Association (AMA Press), 2006. (229 pages)
                   ISBN: 1-57947-775-5

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Hi Anoop

Tastes differ but I point people to

"How doctors think" by Jerome Groopman

And

"Irrationality the enemy" within by Stuart Sutherland.

Neither are a tough read. Enjoy.

Neal
Neal Maskrey


> On 1 Nov 2015, at 01:24, Anoop Balachandran <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know of any good textbooks or papers about critical thinking, like how to think critically and apply practically or anything related to it. I know there is a quite a few in amazon, but not sure which one to read.
>
> And does anyone think there is not much critical thinking happening in class rooms? I am new to teaching. But from what I see my students only care about grades and the last thing they wanna do is 'think'. I do think EBM is simply critical thinking with a check list.
>
> Thank you so much
> Anoop