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Promoting Critical Appraisal of Research Literature in Undergraduate Students

ABSTRACT: The ability to understand and critically appraise the literature is essential to advancing the practice of physical therapy. This article describes an educational intervention designed to improve the skill of undergraduate physical therapy students in applying research information to clinical practice. First‐year students at Mohawk‐McMaster School of Physiotherapy in Hamilton, Canada, are taught critical appraisal skills in an academic course, but when the students commenced their clinical education in the second year, they had difficulty incorporating strategies advocated in the academic course into the clinical setting. Critical appraisal objectives were added to the clinical objectives to reinforce the use of the skill in physical therapy practice. Inclusion of critical appraisal objectives in clinical education has highlighted to students and clinical instructors the importance of using these skills.