A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to discuss publications that are relevant to their professional interests; the term is also used to describe such a meeting. The earliest mention of a journal club that I have found is in an 1854 paper by Sir John Forbes in The Association Medical Journal, which was published between 1853 and 1856, and was a forerunner of the BMJ. The ...

At the 2010 Editorial Board Meeting during a discussion about encouraging early career scientists to be actively involved with the JGP, Merritt Maduke of Stanford proposed the development of a journal club article, and the idea received wide support. The editors are pleased to announce the launch of The JGP Journal Club and the publication of the first such article, " Lysosomal pH and analysis ...

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, ...

Editor’s Note: With this issue, the Journal launches a new feature, Journal Club, that will appear on a regular basis. These short reviews of a recent paper in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to mimic the journal clubs that exist in your own departments or institutions. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club...

The gap between production and implementation of knowledge is the main reason for the suboptimal quality of health care. To eliminate this gap and improve the quality of patient care, journal club (JC) in graduate medical education provides an opportunity for learning the skills of evidence-based medicine. JC, however, continues to face many challenges mainly due to poorly defined goals, inadeq...

A journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to evaluate critically the clinical application of recent articles in the medical literature. As an entity, journal clubs have a long history in postgraduate medical education, which is well documented by Linzer [1]. The earliest reference to a journal club is found in a book of memoirs and letters by the late Sir James Paget [2], a Br...

Journal club’s program has crucial role in medical teaching. Purpose of the present study was to compare the impact of different controlling method of journal club on perspectives of two distinct groups of psychiatric residents. forty two psychiatric residents from two community psychiatric training centers have been asked in this regard. Conferences of journal club in the first group (n=24) we...