being able to read complex texts under pressure is part of the everyday life of a doctor. from reading basic medical science textbooks to complex treatment algorithms in clinical literature medical professional are required to read understand and comprehend sentence structure used in all rational discourse. at the fronteirs for medical science medicine becomes a clinical practice.
there is no hard-and-fast approach to all clinical problems in the population being able to read the latest ambiguous medical literature to provide the best for your patients is what is required for the best doctors in the field everyday.
so as obvious as it may be that reading is important. at the higher end of medicine an excellent grasp of the English language and how it is used to form argument is very important. another admission test has a component which requires a certain standard of critical thinking just because this a different test and it is not as rigorously tested in the UKCAT does not mean that critical thiking inportant in medicine