title: Twelve tips for conducting a medical education journal club.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Journal clubs are active at many universities and they involve many specialties and subspecialties. There is a surprising dearth of journal clubs which deal with articles related to the science of medical education.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  In an effort to expose medical educators to the outstanding benefits of medical education journal clubs we have devised a set of twelve tips to success for such clubs.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a survey of journal club directors at the nine Canadian medical schools known to conduct education journal clubs. We also conducted interviews with all members of the McGill University Centre for Medical Education.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Combining the results from these two information sources allowed us to develop an approach to assuring success in medical education journal clubs.
authors.affiliation: Medicine and Pharmacology, McGill University Centre for Medical Education, Montreal, Canada. peter.mcleod@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McLeod
authors.forename: Yvonne
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Steinert
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boudreau
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Snell
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wiseman
mesh_terms: D000288:Administrative Personnel; D002170:Canada; D003625:Data Collection; D004501:Education, Medical; D006126:Group Processes; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010506:Periodicals as Topic