Sir William Osler organized a journal club at McGill University in 1875, and several authors suggest that journal clubs were found in certain European countries (in particular, Germany and England) prior to that time. The evolution and development of the journal club, however, has not been recorded in the medical literature. Through personal communications and interviews with senior clinicians ...

BACKGROUND Journal clubs are an internationally recognized teaching tool in many postgraduate medical education fields. In developing countries lack of funds for current print materials may have limited journal club use. But with advancing information technology trainees in developing countries increasingly have more access to high quality journals online. However, we are aware of no studies de...

The first documented journal club was organized in 1875 by William Osler at McGill University, to keep staff informed of medical science in a cost‐effective manner.[1] Nowadays, journal club has already become a common form of interactive education in hope to keep medical practitioners up‐to‐date of current literature, understand research design and statistics, and expand critical appraisal ski...

Beginning with this issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, one article will be identified as a good reference for analysis in your journal club. This issue, the article chosen by the editor is “Quality of Life and Exercise: Strengthening the Connections” (Hacker, 2009; see pp. 31–39). If you don’t already have a journal club at your institution, this month’s Evidence-Based Practice ...