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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2004;80:436-437
© 2004 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine

COMMENTARY

Organising a journal club

Organising an English journal club in the developing world

J Tucker , X Gao , S Wang , Q Chen , Y Yin , X Chen

National Center for STD Control, Nanjing, China

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr Joseph Tucker
National Center for STD Control, 12 Jiangwangmiao St, Nanjing, China 210042; Joseph_Tucker@med.unc.edu

English language journal clubs are fundamental for teaching and collaboration in developing areas

Keywords: developing world; journal club; English language

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

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.1–3 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.4 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. Three central questions are discussed:

  1. Why do so few nations where English is the second language have English journal clubs?
  2. What are the relative advantages of promoting English journal clubs in these nations?
  3. How can you establish an English journal . . . [Full text of this article]






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