Journal Club
As the leaders of journal club your team will lead us through two articles. (1) A recent article that you think is important and worthy of a discussion. (2) A seminal article that defines a clinical practice or management decision linked to the recent article. Use the website guidelines to help understand how we hope to learn from you about the implications of the seminal article and for you to facilitate a discussion about the recent article.
Faculty Mentor:
· Guide article selection and interpretation
· Help with presentation focus and implications for changes in clinical practice
· When possible, these mentors should attend the journal club
Timeline:
8 wks prior:
- Touch base with your assigned journal club coordinators to help pick topics, articles, faculty mentors
- Identify a faculty member to help locate and interpret articles
- Invite the faculty member to your presentation
6 wks prior Make final choice of two articles to present
4 wks prior Prepare presentation and discussion questions. Refer to list of common statistical concepts for focus ideas.
2 wks prior Touch base with faculty mentor to review your plan
1 wk prior
- Contact the chiefs and/or journal club coordinators to identify the OPD/Elective residents who will be pre-selected to prepare responses to discussion questions
- Review your presentation with your assigned journal club coordinators
- Email your articles to the chiefs
Common Statistical Concepts
- prevalence vs. incidence
- mean
- median
- confidence interval
- p-value
- odds ratio vs. relative risk
- ANOVA
- ANCOVA
- Survival Curve
- student-t test
- X2 test
- logistic regression
- linear regression
- co-linearity
- biases
- confounding
- intention to treat
- missing data stipulation
- Types of study: perspective, retrospective, meta-analysis, RCT, case report
- co-variables
- sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV