Critical Thinking: Reasoning Skills for Health Professionals

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  1. Explain the principles of critical thinking and their applications to the health-care sector.
  2. Analyse the structure of reasoning across both academic and health-care contexts.
  3. Critically evaluate the use of different types of reasoning and decision-making in health-care and other contexts.
  4. Defend your own positions and decisions using clear and effective writing.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About University of Tasmania

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• TAS-ADP-GCE-2026 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Practice
• TAS-AQS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CUC-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-SCL-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-CCR-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
• TAS-APD-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-AWP-GDI-2026 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
• TAS-AQS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
• TAS-CDP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
• TAS-CUC-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
• TAS-CCR-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
• TAS-APD-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
• TAS-ADH-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
• TAS-APG-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
• TAS-HSI-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
• TAS-APH-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
• TAS-AMS-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
• TAS-AOP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
• TAS-AOR-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
• TAS-SCL-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
• TAS-AWP-MAS-2026 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Short recorded lectures totalling approximately 45 minutes per week, online discussion participation totalling approximately 1 hour per week, and self-directed exercises totalling approximately 1 hour per week.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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