Abstract
A monthly journal club for residents that focuses on research methods and statistics is described. Detaileddiscussions and analyses of clinical research articles by the residents are used to teach the important conceptsand principles of medical research in a manner useful to the practicing physician. Discussion of research articlesis structured by a guide for presenting the research articles to the group and by stimulus questions that addressspecific methodological issues related to the study being examined. Residents have been enthusiastic in theirevaluation of the journal club; the experience has stimulated some of them to conduct their own research studies.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 223-224 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Academic Medicine |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 1989 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Education
Keywords
- Human
- Internal Medicine (education)
- *Internship and Residency
- *Periodicals
- *Reesearch
- *Statistics
Disciplines
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Education