Impact of a National Journal Club and Letter Writing Session on Improving Medical Students' Confidence with Critical Appraisal

© 2019 Gokani et al..

BACKGROUND: Critical appraisal is an important skill for clinicians of the future which medical students often have limited opportunities to develop. This study aimed to evaluate whether a national journal club session could improve medical students' confidence with critical appraisal.

METHODS: 98 medical students attended a critical appraisal lecture and supervised journal article discussions. Junior doctor mentors supported students to submit discussion points as a letter-to-the-editor. An online cross-sectional survey was administered before and after the conference.

RESULTS: 74 students responded, reporting increased confidence with critically appraising research articles (median score 2 vs 4, p<0.01) and increased understanding of why critical appraisal was important to their careers (median score 3 vs 5, p<0.01).

DISCUSSION: This is the first study to demonstrate that a single national journal club session can significantly improve UK medical students' confidence with the critical appraisal process. These opportunities are valued by medical students.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Advances in medical education and practice - 10(2019) vom: 03., Seite 1081-1087

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gokani, Shyam Ajay [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Ekta [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Tanisha [VerfasserIn]
Moudhgalya, Shyam Venkatesan [VerfasserIn]
Selvendran, Subothini Sara [VerfasserIn]
Aggarwal, Nikhil [VerfasserIn]

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Education
Evidence-based medicine
Journal Article
Scientific letters

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Date Revised 12.04.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/AMEP.S235260

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM305196545