Summary:
Journal club is an important teaching learning activity of
educational institutions and thus improving medical
education of the country. It is directly related to improving
patients outcome of one,s own department or institution.
There is increasing demands to practice effectively medical
science at highest stakes. A formal journal club facilitates
discussing and evaluating new research and its application
to practice and improving patient care. However many a
times, journal club fails to achieve its role and a superficial
discussion on clinical aspects distracts its aims and objectives.
The advantages of using a journal club are that you and
your peers can keep current with new transplant knowledge,
learn to facilitate the strength of the evidence, promote
implementation of new knowledge into practice, and improve
patient outcomes. A journal club has been defined an
educational meeting in which a group of individuals discuss
current articles, providing a form for a collective effort to
keep up with the literatures Key words: Journal club,
Evidence based practice, Medical education.
Key words: Journal club, Teaching-learning Activity,
Medical education.
(J Banagladesh Coll Phys Surg 2015; 33: 213-217)