Pensamiento crítico en los grados de ciencias de la salud. La importancia de educar la percepción como vía para que el estudiante adquiera criterio.

Abstract

Critical Thinking (CT) is a philosophical field that proposes a set of methods to weigh
arguments. However, in everyday life, and very particularly in clinical practice, we have to
go back to the moment in which these arguments are elaborated or emerge, that is, we
must go back to how we perceive the patient and the clinical situation as a whole. There is
no CT without critical perception, and even more, the contribution of value that a clinician
makes depends, above all, on his semiological sight, which is nothing else than an
educated perception. To achieve this, the clinician has three procedures: immersion,
imitation and contrast. It will be above all the subjective contrast technique that can help
more to build what we call "independence of criteria", this ability to modify diagnoses and
define the best behavior to follow. Criterion independence should be complemented with the
interdependence criteria with our scientific community.