D o you catch up on valuable rest time once a week at your local journal club? Or doze while somebody presents an article that has been allocated to them, without reference to " question, " " search strategy, " or " assessing performance " ? While the rest may bring health benefits, it is unlikely to advance the quality of care. Evidence-based journal clubs, however, have documented benefits (1...

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The journal club offers a model for lifelong learning and maintenance of certification (MOC) for residents and faculty staff. First, it sharpens participants' critical appraisal skills by providing a space to discuss relevant medical literature. Second, it motivates participants to seek new medical literature on their own using technology. Our model sets forth a four-year journal club curriculu...

Objectives The aim of this study was to determine if implementation of a regular journal club improves critical appraisal confidence and facilitates integrating research literature into nursing practice. Design A survey was distributed to all paediatric nurses across two wards who had potentially attended the journal club in the previous two years. Setting This small scale study was undertaken ...

Staying current with the literature is of paramount importance to the pharmacist engaged in an evidence-based clinical practice. Given the expanding roles and responsibilities of today's pharmacists combined with exponential growth in new medical and health sciences literature, staying current has become an extremely daunting task. Traditional journal clubs have focused upon their role as a tra...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether a journal club model could improve comprehension and written and spoken medical English in a population of Chinese medical professionals. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The study population consisted of 52 medical professionals who were residents or postgraduate master or PhD students in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Med...

Abbreviations: Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, GOLD; forced expiratory volume in 1 second, FEV1; inhaled corticosteroid, ICS; long-acting muscarinic antagonist, LAMA; long-acting beta2-agonists, LABA; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD Citation: Balkissoon R. Journal club: Inhaled corticosteroids—refining our understanding of their role in maintenance treatment ...