Establishing an effective journal club: a postgraduate educational tool

Abstract

The Journal clubs are used as a standard teaching tool for the post graduates. They help the post graduates to learn the critical appraisal skills, recent trends in the field of medicine which in turn will have an impact on improving the quality of health care delivery. By doing literature review, the purpose of this article was to suggest criteria to be followed to carry out effective journal clubs as it is a part of academic activity of postgraduate teaching curriculum. Recent systematic reviews, looking at the effectiveness of journal clubs have reported increased confidence in critical appraisal skills, improvements in reading behaviour and the ability to use the findings in clinical practice. Overall journal clubs improve educational outcomes and enhance lifelong learning.