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This study examined the effectiveness of a journal club for teaching critical appraisal skills to residents in psychiatry and their transfer of those skills to clinical scenarios. Twelve residents participated in a 12-week journal club, and 12 residents were matched control subjects. Following the journal club, there remained no difference in performance between the two groups, although two-thirds of the journal club residents did show an improvement or no change, compared with one-third of the control residents. Furthermore, there was a trend for the journal club residents to require less time to review an article. This format of a journal club may not be an effective method for teaching critical appraisal skills to residents in psychiatry.
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The work was done at the Clarke Site, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada.
Dr. Fu gratefully acknowledges the support by an Educating Future Physicians of Ontario Fellowship.
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Fu, C.H.Y., Hodges, B., Regehr, G. et al. Is a Journal Club Effective for Teaching Critical Appraisal Skills?. Acad Psychiatry 23, 205–209 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03340056
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