Critical thinking or educated cognition in the teaching and practice of medicine
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Critical thinking, Scientific model, COVID-19Abstract
This article explains and exemplifies the definition of critical thinking in medicine and its relationship with the scientific model.
Critical thinking, or better yet, educated cognition, consists of knowing how to identify and evidence-based knowledge of another that is not, in knowing how to manage uncertainty in situations such as the still current COVID-19 pandemic. It consists of seeking truthfulness as a method. And it requires a capacity for criticism with a dose of skepticism.
The second part of the article argues the importance of having knowledge based on models. Knowledge not beliefs. The scientific model consists of framing scientific knowledge in an explanatory model that is not a magic model or a justifying model. The scientific model recognizes its strengths and weaknesses, that is, it is applied critically, and is obliged to explain and predict parts of physical, psychic, or social reality.
In general, critical thinking is associated with a way to reach the truth, but, as we describe in this article, it is much more appropriate to consider it a way to rectify and perfect our motor and reflection habits, and a methodology to think according to models that explain reality as well as possible and to rectify with little moral pain.
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