title: Continuing medical education: merits of a surgical journal club.
abstract: Journal clubs have been used as part of a continuing medical education programme for over 100 years. The major role of a journal club is to introduce concepts of critical thinking and evaluation of research literature. This study describes how the understanding of papers presented in a surgical journal club improves by the use of a handout as an aid to revision, and reading skills of the participants are evaluated by a post-test. It shows how participation improves when a climate of mutual respect is created and when the subject under discussion answers questions related to real life needs and the new knowledge acquired has an immediate application.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, King Saud University, College of Medicine, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: A-Latif
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006686:Hobbies; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D014956:Writing