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CHERO PISFIL, Santos Lucio  e  DIAZ MAU, Aimeé Yajaira. Critical thinking in physical therapy students. Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2025, vol.9, n.38, pp.1752-1761.  Epub 01-Abr-2025. ISSN 2616-7964.  https://doi.org/10.33996/revistahorizontes.v9i38.1014.

The physical therapy student needs to be clear about the intervention based on the development of critical thinking, a rational conception to analyze, evaluate, infer, explain and self-regulate. The objective was to identify the level of critical thinking in students of the last years of a private university. The methodology was by means of quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional design, in 189 students of the last 2 years, the Individual Generic Competences Questionnaire adapted for physiotherapists was applied, which measures the self-perception of critical thinking in health students and has 3 dimensions. As results, it was found that critical thinking is of medium level 60.6%; being predominant the dimension associated to the judgment of a specific situation with 52.7%. It was concluded that it reaches a medium level of critical thinking and the dimension associated with the judgment of a specific situation refers that it has the ability to use deductive and inductive strategies.

Palavras-chave : Critical thinking; Physiotherapists; Public health; University students.

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