Critical thinking comprises the mental processes, strategies, and representations people use to solve problems, make decisions, and learn new concepts. The study of critical thinking combines the educational, philosophical, and psychological traditions of thought. R. Ennis offers a philosophical taxonomy suggesting that critical thinking results from the interaction of a set of dispositions tow...

Chinese policy makers are aware that developing China’s managers is crucial to creating competitive advantage in the post-WTO period. Consequently large numbers of Chinese managers have been sent abroad, particularly to the Western and developed countries, on management training courses in order to bring new ideas and approaches to their organisations. This paper addresses the empirical deficie...

Background Despite a demanding work environment, information on stress and burnout of critical care fellows is limited. Objectives To assess 1) levels of burnout, perceived stress, and quality of life in critical care fellows, and 2) the impact of a brief stress management training on these outcomes. Methods In a tertiary care academic medical center, 58 critical care fellows of varying subspec...

Standard internalist approaches to critical thinking insist that critical thinkers maintain conscious, deliberate access to the reasons for their beliefs and actions. A more useful approach is externalist, focusing on the reliability of different types of processes for generating beliefs and decisions under different circumstances. We describe an externalist approach to critical thinking based ...

National UK standards for critical care highlight the need for clinical pharmacists to practice at an advanced level and above. The aim of this research paper was to describe the views of UK critical care pharmacists on the current provision of Advanced Level Practice (ALP) education and accreditation. It sought to identify whether there is a need for a national or regional training programme. ...

For any swimmer, a hyperbolic relationship links velocity (v) and stroke rate (SR) to time to exhaustion (t). The asymptotes of these relationships are called Critical Velocity (CV) and Critical Stroke Rate (CSR). Both could be maintained, at least in theory, indefinitely. This review presents the origins of these two concepts, their physiological / biomechanical underpinnings to emphasis their...

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The training of workers plays a critical role in the prevention of injury and disease in the workplace. The important role of worker training and education in prevention programs is recognized in numerous OSHA substance-specific regulations such as those for asbestos, lead, arsenic, and cotton dust, as well as in several process-specific standards, such as those for respiratory protection, lock...

*Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; †Department of Foods and Nutrition and ‡Department of Exercise Science, the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; §Student Health Center and Department of Athletics, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.; and ¶School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Bu...

A new training model for critical appraisal in therapeutics is presented. Postgraduate trainees in Clinical Pharmacology are assigned to critically appraise scientific papers that faculty members were asked to review by Journals. The manuscripts were discussed in group rounds, allowing teaching of all aspects of therapeutics research. Formal evaluation of this model by trainees revealed high ma...