Impact of a National Journal Club and Letter Writing Session on Improving Medical Students' Confidence with Critical Appraisal

Impact of a National Journal Club and Letter Writing Session on Improving Medical Students' Confidence with Critical Appraisal

Critical appraisal is an important skill for clinicians of the future which medical students often have limited opportunities to develop. This study aimed to evaluate whether a national journal club session could improve medical students' confidence with critical appraisal. 98 medical students...

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Veröffentlicht in:Advances in medical education and practice 2019-01, Vol.10, p.1081-1087
Hauptverfasser: Gokani, Shyam Ajay, Sharma, Ekta, Sharma, Tanisha, Moudhgalya, Shyam Venkatesan, Selvendran, Subothini Sara, Aggarwal, Nikhil
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Sprache:eng
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Clubs
Collaboration
Conferences and conventions
Editors
Education
Evidence-based medicine
Feedback
Medical personnel training
Medical schools
Medical students
Medicine
Original Research
Physicians
Professional ethics
scientific letters
Skills
Students
Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Critical appraisal is an important skill for clinicians of the future which medical students often have limited opportunities to develop. This study aimed to evaluate whether a national journal club session could improve medical students' confidence with critical appraisal. 98 medical students attended a critical appraisal lecture and supervised journal article discussions. Junior doctor mentors supported students to submit discussion points as a letter-to-the-editor. An online cross-sectional survey was administered before and after the conference. 74 students responded, reporting increased confidence with critically appraising research articles (median score 2 vs 4, p
ISSN:1179-7258
1179-7258
DOI:10.2147/AMEP.S235260