Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Measuring critical-appraisal skills is a key step in assessing physicians' abilities to engage in self-directed learning. The authors developed an instrument to evaluate the abilities of residents to critically appraise a journal article. ⋯ After further validation in other settings, the assessment instrument in this study may be used to objectively assess critical-reading skills. It may also provide feedback and measure outcomes for interventions designed to improve critical reading.