“A journal club is a group of individuals
who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in scientific literature. Journal clubs are
usually organized around a defined subject in basic or applied research. For
example, the application of evidence-based medicine to some area of
medical practice can be facilitated by a journal club. Typically, each
participant can voice their view relating to several questions such as the
appropriateness of the research design, the statistics
employed, the appropriateness of the controls that were used, etc. There might
be an attempt to synthesize together the results of several papers, even if
some of these results might first appear to contradict each other. Even if the
results of the study are seen as valid, there might be a discussion of how
useful the results are and if these results might lead to new research or to
new applications. Journal clubs are sometimes used in the education of graduate
or professional students. These help make the student become more familiar with
the advanced literature in their new field of study. In addition, these journal
clubs help improve the students' skills of understanding and debating current
topics of active interest in their field. This type of journal club may
sometimes be taken for credit. Research laboratories may also organize
journal clubs for all researchers in the lab to help them keep up with the
literature produced by others who work in their field.”
From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_club
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