Evidence-based medicine journal club

Effect of evidence based medicine training in the quality of journal clubs: A road to evidence based journal clubs

  Introduction: Journal clubs play an important role in teaching Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Evidence based journal clubs focus on real problems of the group, and set a minimum level of evidence for articles to be presented, and in the end a clinical bottom line is set to be used in the daily clinical practice. In this article, we have explained our experience in r...

Advances in evidence-based information resources for clinical practice.

Readers with a critical eye for value will quickly discern that ACP Journal Club just got bigger and better. The usual 25 pages of abstracts in each issue have been expanded to 37 by adding 12 pages of unique content from ACP Journal Club’s sister journal, Evidence-Based Medicine. This additional content covers advances of relevance to primary care specialists in the fields of family medicine, ...

Designing, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based journal club program in the school of Persian medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Due to the lack of evidence-based medicine (EBM) program in the Persian medicine curriculum, the EBM journal clubs were implemented as a method for teaching EBM and to evaluate its efficacy and satisfaction of participants.   Methods: EBM journal clubs which was designed and implemented in 1398 and 1399 in the school of Persian Medicine of Iran University of Medical Sciences was a...

Journal Clubs: 2. Why and how to run them and how to publish them.

232 Journal clubs have many functions, including the provision of a forum for developing skills in critical appraisal, an essential part of being a competent clinician. From early on, journal clubs reported their proceedings in academic journals. The Zoological Journal Club of Michigan, for example, regularly reported its activities in the journal Science (see figure 1). Table 1 lists a selecti...

The need and means for evidence-based medicine in developing countries.

Journal Club for Nurses

Methods The nurse’s competencies and knowledge about using literature based on research, was examined through an anonymous questionnaire. The purpose was to identify the nurse’s competencies and knowledge about evidence-based medicine and evidence-based nursing. A steering committee with representatives from the department’s leadership and the clinical specialist has been collected. They choose...