Editorial clubs as a new teaching tool in postgraduate training.
BACKGROUND
We report an editorial club as a novel method of teaching systems-based competency in a hematology/oncology fellowship program.


METHODS
Editorial clubs focus on topics of broad economic, political, and legal ramifications of hematology/oncology and thereby help to develop systems competency as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.


RESULTS
We began our program in 2001 and report on its functioning and outcome in a group of hematology/oncology fellows at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.


CONCLUSIONS
Topics were diverse, fellows and faculty attendance was excellent, and fellows reported improved systems-based competency.
Safar
A Mazin
AM
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.
O'Sullivan
Patricia
P
Ray
Linda
L
Hutchins
Laura
L
Mehta
Paulette
P
D001131:Arkansas; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006405:Hematology / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000193:education; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation