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Eight years’ experience with a Medical Education Journal Club in Mexico: a quasi-experimental one-group study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, December 2015
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Title
Eight years’ experience with a Medical Education Journal Club in Mexico: a quasi-experimental one-group study
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BMC Medical Education, December 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0499-7
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Melchor Sánchez-Mendiola, Daniel Morales-Castillo, Uri Torruco-García, Margarita Varela-Ruiz

Abstract

A time-honored strategy for keeping up to date in medicine and improving critical appraisal skills is the Journal Club (JC). There are several reports of its use in medicine and allied health sciences but almost no reports of JC focused on medical education. The purpose of the study is to describe and evaluate an eight years' experience with a medical education Journal Club (MEJC). We started a monthly medical education JC in 2006 at UNAM Faculty of Medicine in Mexico City. Its goal is to provide faculty with continuing professional development in medical education. A discussion guide and a published paper were sent 2 weeks before sessions. We reviewed the themes and publication types of the papers used in the sessions, and in June-July 2014 administered a retrospective post-then-pre evaluation questionnaire to current participants that had been regular attendees to the JC for more than 2 years. The retrospective post-then-pre comparisons were analyzed with Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Effect sizes were calculated for the pre-post comparisons with Cohen's r. There have been 94 MEJC sessions until July 2014. Average attendance is 20 persons, a mix of clinicians, educators, psychologists and a sociologist. The articles were published in 32 different journals, and covered several medical education themes (curriculum, faculty development, educational research methodology, learning methods, assessment, residency education). 22 Attendees answered the evaluation instrument. The MEJC had a positive evaluation from good to excellent, and there was an improvement in self-reported competencies in medical education literature critical appraisal and behaviors related to the use of evidence in educational practice, with a median effect size higher than 0.5. The evaluation instrument had a Cronbach's alpha of 0.96. A periodic Medical Education Journal Club can improve critical appraisal of the literature, and be maintained long-term using evidence-based strategies. This activity is a useful adjunct to the scholarship of teaching.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Ecuador 1 1%
Unknown 78 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Student > Master 9 11%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Professor 6 8%
Other 21 26%
Unknown 20 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 38%
Nursing and Health Professions 9 11%
Social Sciences 5 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 24 30%
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