Journal Club - Student Council for Medical Research

Journal Club - Student Council for Medical Research

Journal clubs are educational meetings that offer the opportunity for Medical students to develop their critical thinking skills in a socially enjoyable atmosphere. This project is In the continuity of our efforts to establish and implement the culture of research in the Faculty of medicine of Tripoli’s university, and as such it’s the second project of the Student Council for Medical Researches, after the Basics Of Research Training Programe “ BRTP “. Our journal club offers the chance for the students targeted by BRTP to apply their previously obtained theoretical knowledge in an effective manner transforming it into real life skills. Monthly organized meetings are held to appraise scientific articles with the purpose of applying critical thinking skills cooperatively, and under the supervision of a senior mentor who insures the objects of the project are successfully attained. We expect that the attendance will gain adequate skills with time to start new journal clubs inside the faculty of medicine of Tripoli’s university and also in their desired specialty after graduation.



Importance of Journal Clubs: 

Journal clubs have been shown to be innovative ways of training in clinical decision making and gaining critical appraisal skills, it is an important forum for teaching research methodology, clinical epidemiology and statistics. Many academic training program include a journal club, They have long been recognized as a mean of keeping up to date with the literature; promoting evidence based medicine; fostering informal discussion and interaction. They are important in supplementing our educational system with essential usually untaught skills : teamwork, communication, dialogue, presentation skills. they can form the basis of advances in clinical practice, and implement the culture of journal clubs in our hospitals in the future.



The objectives:

• Critically appraise literatures. 
• Develop an approach to the analysis of the various types of articles and understand the basis of diagnostic testing.
• Recognize the strengths and limitations of various study designs. 
• Understand the basis of bio-statistics. 
• Become familiar with sources of bias 
• Understand how results of a study can be used in clinical practice. 
• Improve personal skills.
• Provide an enjoyable educational and social occasion.

The time-line :

The activities of the Journal Club for one year will held from September 2017 until September 2018

date	topic
30 Sep 2017	Medical Education
10  Oct 2017	Mental health after Trauma
14 Nov 2017	Diabetes mellitus
30 Des 2017	brain stroke
27 Jan 2018	Alzheimer
24 Feb 2018	fever in children
24  Mar 2018	preterm babies complications
28 Apr 2018	world health day
31 May 2018	lung cancer
30 Jun 2018	Nutrition
28 Jul 2018	Hepatitis
29 Sep 2018	coronary artery disease