title: Journal clubs during advanced pharmacy practice experiences to teach literature-evaluation skills.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine pharmacy students' attitudes and academic performance related to journal club during 2 advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs).
  
  
  METHODS
  Fourth-year pharmacy students were required to complete 3 journal club assignments during drug information and internal medicine APPEs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A majority (91.3%) of the 105 students who responded to a 21-item survey instrument indicated that journal club assignments during the drug-information APPE were valuable to their understanding of research design and statistics. Students who completed the drug-information APPE before the internal medicine APPE scored higher on their understanding of the strengths and weaknesses and the clinical relevance of studies and had a higher learning slope (p = 0.01) than did students who completed the internal medicine APPE first.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Incorporating journal clubs into APPEs is an effective means of teaching literature-evaluation skills to pharmacy students.
authors: Chicago College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA. sarif@midwestern.edu
authors: Sally A
authors: SA
authors: Arif
authors: Suzanna
authors: S
authors: Gim
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Nogid
authors: Bupendra
authors: B
authors: Shah
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004512:Education, Pharmacy / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology*