I want to talk about the critique. I start with this picture because it reminds me of a Chinese proverb. Give a person a fish and they eat for a night. Teach a person to fish and they'll eat for a lifetime. The critique falls in line with that philosophy and one of my favorite proverbs. What is a critique? Well, we find critiques in the American Board of Dermatology self-assessment questions. Questions that are board-style questions that have a critique for self-assessment credit. It's part of the criteria. And the critique may be different than what you know that word to mean in other contexts. A critique in a self-assessment question is basically the brief explanation of the answers to the question. And these are where the real learning can occur. It's one thing just to tell somebody you're right or you're wrong. But now we're going to explain why is this right and why are you wrong. And this is really what grew the American Board of Dermatology's self-assessment concept to being more of a teach-to-competence tool for the dermatology diplomates. So, the critique has an anatomy to it, which I'll go through in a second. But it starts by having answers that are backed up with cited literature that you can cite as part of that critique, giving references. But the anatomy looks something like this. A critique addresses from that multiple-choice question, why is the correct answer correct? And why are those marked incorrect, incorrect? Why are the distractors wrong? And that's really what a critique is. Now it doesn't have to be paragraphs and paragraphs. Usually it's a paragraph with a few sentences you know, three to ten sentences explaining why the correct answer is correct and why the wrong answers are wrong. Realizing that part of this is to help people learn. And that's really what the critique is for. And I think that understanding that you need to address not just this is why this is right, because most people that picked the wrong answer had a reason for picking that wrong answer. So, you need to also explain why that wrong answer is wrong. And sometimes that's actually the trickier part of writing the critique. So, don't make them too long and use literature to justify the right answers, but also touch on those wrong answers too. And you'll do a great job writing critiques. you

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