1. Organising an English journal club in the developing world.
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Tucker, J., Gao, X., Wang, S., Chen, O., Yin, Y., and Chen, X.
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MEDICAL literature , *MEDICINE , *EPIDEMIOLOGY , *BIOMETRY , *PERIODICALS , *ENGLISH language - Abstract
The medical journal club remains at the heart of evidence based medicine among teaching institutions. Previous reviews have analysed the importance of journal clubs in English speaking nations. A meta-analysis of postgraduate journal clubs using Cochrane-like criteria for selection of papers established that journal clubs broaden a postgraduate student's sense of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics, reading habits, and using medical literature in clinical situations. Previous analysis in this area has weighed heavily on the side of English speaking journal clubs in nations where English fluency is assumed. This commentary explores the role of the English journal club outside of areas where English is the mother tongue.
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- 2004
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