The Five Areas of Self-Assessment That Are Critical to Clinical

The five areas of self-assessment that are critical to clinical practice and should be assessed include: 1) asking answerable questions using the PICO format, 2) assessing whether your searches are efficient and relevant to your question, 3) assessing your critical appraisal of the literature, 4) evaluating your inclusion of evidence into your clinical practice, and 5) evaluating whether your clinical practice is improving.