Objective: To estimate the impact of an educational strategy aimed at developing critical reading of research reports among medical residents enrolled in a nuclear medicine course.
Methods: We carried out an intervention study to measure the degree to which students developed critical reading skills in a one month period (May-June, 2007). We developed an instrument that included five summaries of research articles in nuclear medicine and 96 sentences that measured four indicators (interpret, judge, propose, and assessment of technical and technological aspects).