Despite the importance of critical thinking disposition, there is limited evidence focused on thinking processes in prevention medical students. Prevention doctors need well-developed cognitive skills which need positive critical thinking abilities to make independent decisions. To achieve these optimal disease prevention and control outcomes, prevention doctors are required to provide evidence-based, effective protective, and population services. There is increasing recognition that prevention doctors facilitate to prevention and control of the disease for humans, including infectious diseases and chronic non-communicable diseases.
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These findings suggested that more effective teaching methods should be taken to facilitate critical thinking disposition and problem-solving ability.ĭue to the multifaceted and complex decisions of prevention doctors, high-level cognitive abilities and professional techniques are required. Most medical students were found to have an ambivalent disposition which meant they were not disposed toward critical thinking. The difference was statistically significant. The target scores of preventive medicine, maternal and children’s health medicine, health inspection and quarantine, and food quality and safety were 265.17 ± 30.10, 260.26 ± 37.05, 271.73 ± 33.55, and 252.11 ± 39.87, respectively. Among them, males scored 257.42 ± 35.06 lower than females’ 264.82 ± 34.32, the difference was statistically significant. Only one of the subscales (maturity in judgment) had mean scores of 43.35 ± 8.23 indicating the positive disposition of students. The CTDI-CV overall average score was 262.02 ± 34.74 points indicating an ambivalent disposition in medical undergraduate students.
ResultsĪ total of 435 questionnaires were distributed and 426 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective rate of 97.93%. The survey was completed in May 2019 using the California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory-Chinese version (CTDI-CV). This cross-sectional study was performed on 426 students from four majors, including preventive medicine, maternal and children’s health care medicine, health inspection and quarantine, and food quality and safety. To investigate the critical thinking disposition of medical undergraduates.
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