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More on VCDE WS Journal ClubBrian Davis, Ph.D.

VCDE WS TeleconferenceNovember 17, 2011

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History and Journal Clubs

• First mention of Journal Club is from Sir James Paget (1834? in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London)

• First Organized Journal Club apparently at McGill University in Montreal by William Osler (1875)

• Linzer M. The journal club and medical education; over one hundred years of unrecorded history. Postgraduate Medical Journal  1987;63:475-8 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2428317/

• Standard in Graduate Science and Clinics

• Electronic Journal Clubs not so successful…?• http://www.journalclub.org/• http://www.journalreview.org/v2/

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Purposes

• From Paget (reminiscing on 1834) on the lack of a suitable library: “'in place of this, some of the self-elect of the pupils, making themselves into a kind of club, had a small room over a baker's shop near the Hospital-gate where we could sit and read the journals and where some, in the evening, played cards.‘

• From Osler: 'for the purchase and distribution of periodicals to which he could ill afford to subscribe as an individual'.

• Acknowledgement of a number of purposes (over time)

1. Teach critical reading skills (including speaking, presentation, analytical)

2. Generate questions and disseminate knowledge

3. Keep up with current literature (in field of study)

4. Impact practice

• We think #2 through #4 are of most interest to VCDE WS participants.

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Journal Club, Seminars and Social Media

• Historical Knowledge sharing venues for Scientists and Clinicians in groups:• Journal Clubs• Seminars/Lectures• Conferences and Meetings• Now joined by Social Media

• Twitter• RSS• Blogs• Web sites• Listservs• Etc.

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VCDE WS Virtual Journal Club

• Important for Community to contribute• Please feel free to add/edit/update/contribute

• Vocabulary Knowledge Center collaboration• https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/IQIpAw

• Articles nominated for presentation (eventually vote online?)• Articles scheduled for presentation• Other articles to share• Journals of interest (in this field)

• Other resources.

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Journal Club Best Practices

• Best Practices:• Leader• Articles• Questions• Review Checklist Template• Type

• Evidence-based• Critical Appraisal • Other

• CATs (Critically Appraised Topic) and BETs (Best Evidence Topic)• http://www.bestbets.org/background/bets-and-cats.php

• http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/10/1/67.full• http://svnnet.org/uploads/File/JournalClubOutline.pdf

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Journal Club Best Practices

• Best Practices:• Leader (Brian will act as now, unless volunteer?)• Articles (set up for December 15; others from community for January and

later?)• Questions (Brian can send out beforehand, but are there volunteers to

commit to read and ask questions?)• Review Checklist Template (for Presenter: does not have to be followed?)• Type (later, if community wants to expend effort?)

• Evidence-based• Critical Appraisal • Other

• CATs (Critically Appraised Topic) and BETs (Best Evidence Topic)• http://www.bestbets.org/background/bets-and-cats.php

• (later, if community wants to expend effort?)

• http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/10/1/67.full• http://svnnet.org/uploads/File/JournalClubOutline.pdf

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References

• VCDE WS Journal Club Wiki: https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/Virtual+Journal+Club

• https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/IQIpAw • Linzer M. The journal club and medical education; over one hundred years

of unrecorded history. Postgraduate Medical Journal  1987;63:475-8 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2428317/

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_club • How to Make Journal Clubs interesting: Advances in Psychiatric

treatment http://apt.rcpsych.org/content/10/1/67.full• Practical Tips in Starting a journal Club: Society for Vascular Nursing

http://svnnet.org/uploads/File/JournalClubOutline.pdf• Journal Review.org http://www.journalreview.org/v2/ • Women’s Hearth Health a @ Stanford http://

stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/COE/heart/HeartCenterServices/womenHeartHealth/electronicJournalClub.html

• BETs and CATs: http://www.bestbets.org/background/bets-and-cats.php