Journal Club

In order to develop the capacity to adapt to a rapidly advancing medical information base, healthcare providers need to equip themselves with skills in acquisition, appraisal and application of new knowledge.

The Journal Club at the Birmingham Women's Hospital provides a forum where these skills can be fostered. The format of our journal club has a careful selection of educational experiences to enhance deep learning of these skills. The journal club is conducted in the context of clinical care problems that require use of information from the medical literature. These problems are converted into focussed, answerable clinical questions.

Based on the clinical question, systematic literature searches are conducted and the identified articles are appraised using structured methodological guidelines. Critical appraisal is performed using computer software that allows electronic storage and retrieval. This electronic summary is called a critically appraised topic or CAT.
Click here to view the CATs pages.

This page was last modified on Fri May 07 2010